[Pkg-samba-maint] Help needed with Samba 4.0.5 package

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 08:24:00AM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 15:17 -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > > We should think about the naming of the packages and the init scripts.
> > > The 'samba' package doesn't ship the 'samba' daemon, and the 'samba'
> > > init script doesn't control this daemon.  Looking at the history, this
> > > is expected, but it gets confusing very quickly.

> > Oops.  Cf. my latest post about splitting the init scripts. ;)

> > Since there will now be a 'samba' daemon in addition to the classic
> > 'smbd' and 'nmbd' daemons, what do you think of switching this all in
> > one go, and making /etc/init.d/samba control /usr/sbin/samba while the
> > other daemons each get their own init script?

> As long as:
>  - We don't cause total confusion
>  - Something more meta causes the system to start the *right* scripts in
> the right situation.  Currently due to limitations of what we could do
> for 4.0, 'samba' is for the AD DC, and nmbd/smbd/winbindd must not be
> used in this situation.  Eventually the Samba team wants to move to
> 'samba' being the only user-or-system launched process.

What do you have in mind for this "more meta" thing?  Do we need the
nmbd/smbd/winbind scripts to check testparm to figure out whether Samba is
configured as an AD DC and skip starting?

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