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From:   Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
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On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 04:37:21PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
>
>I do like that Namjae et al made the format of the .conf file very similar
>to the format of Samba's smb.conf file though.   I realize there some
>users complain that there are too many smb.conf parameters for Samba,
>but he seemed to pick a reasonably subset of them for ksmbd.
>Samba is a much larger project with many more smb.conf parameters
>but it does reduce confusion making the parameter names similar
>where possible e.g. "workgroup", "guest account", (share) path, read only, etc.
>and fortunately the default directories for the two smb.conf files are
>different so at least the daemons don't use the same file.

Sure, I think the formats and parameter names being as close
as possible is a great idea to allow users to move between
servers as they wish. But making the files the same name
is not a good idea.