[Techtalk] finding compiled options in Samba

[Carla Schroder]

On Sunday 27 February 2005 11:39 am, Carla Schroder wrote:
> hallo all,
> 
> Is there a way to find out what options have been compiled into Samba? 
> 
> Given how this such a common question for all linux apps, wouldn't it be 
> lovely to have some sort of universal convention for all apps, so that no 
> matter how they were installed- deb, rpm, source-built- you could always 
find 
> out with a simple query.

Ask, and the Samba manual shall answer. :) With Samba you can use the 
debugger, for example this tells you what Kerberos options are compiled into 
the build:

root at foo:/usr/sbin# smbd -b | grep KRB

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