samba - Dec 2000 - wish list

I know that I have had trouble trying to sort out browse
list problems and I see from the list that others seem to
have similar problems.

I wonder if a stand alone program that sits on the network,
and just prints out the browse list synchronizing stuff
would be useful.

I suspect that similar output could be gleaned from setting
the debug level in the nmb program and watching the log file.....
but it would be nice to have a separate program running, so I
could watch what was going on.  Not necessarily as part of the 
SAMBA server.

It would also be useful to watch machines join and leave workgroups
and/or domains.

Perhaps also.... keep track of name resolution, whether DNS etc etc.

And .. perhaps trivially .... decode the <1B> stuff into something
that does not require a mental lookup, for those of us that
don't work the stuff all of the time :-)

Sort of like a packet tracer for Windows specific traffic.

Cheers
Peter


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In some future version of the Samba help file, it would be nice if for each
option the equivalent (if applicable) Windows registry or group policy
setting could be listed. This would be helpful when working with the
Miscrosoft knowledge base, or when setting up a Windows NT/2K server to
behave similarly to Samba.

I know that for myself, I have found that Samba provides a solution for a
problem (and is documented) but since the docs don't list a Windows
equivalent, I can't fix Windows.

--Jon