"ronnie sahlberg" <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think it would be good to have these tools as part of the actual install. > They are in python so they are imho much more useful to the target users > (sysadmins) than a utility written in C. > (I kind of regret that smbinfo is in C, it should have been python > too:-( ) I completely agree, we could rewrite smbinfo in python. > Maybe we just need to decide on a naming prefix for these utilities > and then there shouldn't be > a problem to add many small useful tools. We can also make the C code call the python script for now (or vice versa, while smbinfo gets rewritten). > The nice thing with small python tools is that it is so easy to tweak > them to specific usecases. +100 Cheers, -- Aurélien Aptel / SUSE Labs Samba Team GPG: 1839 CB5F 9F5B FB9B AA97 8C99 03C8 A49B 521B D5D3 SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, DE GF: Felix Imendörffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah HRB 247165 (AG München)