@Rowland ? With your discussion you are moving my question in a quite wrong direction.Why, because I have read such discussions about custom ports and saw that they didn?t give any good results. ? If you want you can consider the following reasons: * if I ask it, then I need it for configuration I want to build. * Modern service programs allow to set custom ports because they provide flexibility in integration solutions. * Modern service programs don?t require virtual interfaces to configure frontend and backend as they use ports. So, the question is not about why I need it, but if samba supports these absolute normal modern requirements in 2020 or not. And if not, could anyone say if there are plans to implement it? ? -- Best regards, Alex Orlov
On Wed, 2020-12-16 at 22:39 +0300, Alex Orlov via samba wrote:> > @Rowland > > > > With your discussion you are moving my question in a quite wrong > direction.Why, because I have read such discussions > > about custom ports and saw that they didn?t give any good results. > > > > If you want you can consider the following reasons: > > * if I ask it, then I need it for configuration I want to build. > > * Modern service programs allow to set custom ports because they > provide flexibility in integration solutions. > > * Modern service programs don?t require virtual interfaces to > configure frontend and backend as they use ports. > > So, the question is not about why I need it, but if samba supports > these absolute normal modern requirements in 2020 or not. > > And if not, could anyone say if there are plans to implement it?No and No. Also, please understand that it is very normal and expected to be questioned about the reasons behind any questions here. We find many questions asked come from a set of assumptions that first need to be tested - the solution is very often in challenging those assumptions rather than in a change needed in Samba. Even if the assumptions hold, we need to understand the context to give the best advise. Finally, while we have offered per service port configuration in the past, we are trying to reduce the number of configuration options in Samba to keep things manageable and to ensure that it is harder for users to accidentally create un-tested and unworkable installations. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett (he/him) https://samba.org/~abartlet/ Samba Team Member (since 2001) https://samba.org Samba Team Lead, Catalyst IT https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba
On 16/12/2020 19:39, Alex Orlov via samba wrote:> @Rowland > > With your discussion you are moving my question in a quite wrong direction.Why, because I have read such discussions > about custom ports and saw that they didn?t give any good results.You seem to ask questions without really giving the context of why you are asking them. I read your question as you wanting to run two dns servers on one machine, if I am wrong, say so.> > If you want you can consider the following reasons: > * if I ask it, then I need it for configuration I want to build.Yes, but what you want to build might not be valid and have been tried before.> * Modern service programs allow to set custom ports because they provide flexibility in integration solutions. > * Modern service programs don?t require virtual interfaces to configure frontend and backend as they use ports. > So, the question is not about why I need it, but if samba supports these absolute normal modern requirements in 2020 or not.Samba, like Microsoft, doesn't support what you are asking.> And if not, could anyone say if there are plans to implement it?Very much doubt it. Rowland> > -- > Best regards, Alex Orlov