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Removal of hostconfig file will prevent OS X booting
Authored by: BraindeadMac on Feb 25, '03 02:29:18PM

No, it was identifiably the 3rd party software, not samba, which hosed the /etc/hostconfig file. The samba software itself never reads the contents of /etc/hostconfig. Instead the value of SMBSERVER is parsed from /etc/hostconfig at boot by the startup script /System/Library/StartupItems/Samba/Samba. The point is that one shouldn't blame samba for this--let the developer of the 3rd party implementation know about it--but it's simply wrong to start blaming widely used, stable product (SAMBA) when it isn't the fault.



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