samba - Mar 1998 - Fw: Unknown parameter encountered: "domain controller"

Reported a couple of times to the Bugs address,
still haven't figured out what's going on.
Used to work in 1.9.17 versions.


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I keep getting the following error when
I try to set my domain controller to a
local NT machine in smb.conf:

        Load smb config files from /etc/smb.conf
        Unknown parameter encountered: "domain controller"
        Ignoring unknown parameter "domain controller"

I had this problem in beta 2, and now in beta3:
Samba 1.9.18p3

Full steps to recreate problem:

In /etc/smb.conf (on Linux RedHat 5.0):

# Use only if you have an NT server on your network that has been
# configured at install time to be a primary domain controller.
;   domain controller = <NT-Domain-Controller-SMBName>
   domain controller = RFA_Server1

Thanks,
Bill




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Bill Eldridge
Radio Free Asia
bill@rfa.org



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Bill Eldridge
Radio Free Asia
bill@rfa.org

this parameter is now redundant (removed) as it was redundant (not used)
for at least since 1.9.17.

luke (no longer on the samba digest)

Bill,

	Sorry about this problem. That parameter was changed
in Luke's NTDOM branch of Samba to be a boolean parameter
that means 'be a domain controler'. It was deprecated prior
to that as nmbd will now use the correct browsing methods
to find the domain master browser (which is really what the
parameter was trying to set for Samba).

I will get that fixed in the docs and in the example
files for the next release.

Many apologies for the confusion.

Jeremy Allison,
Samba Team.