samba question moving to LTS 12.04

[Linda]

On 10/16/2012 04:19 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 16 October 2012 22:00, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 16 October 2012 21:53, Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Just an additional note on migrating to LTS 12.04 and a newer version of
>>> samba
>>> I decided to install the graphical samba configuration tool and let it
>>> create a samba configuration file to see what happened. When it was done I
>>> ran testparm on it and got the same error message  ERROR: You must specify
>>> both machine name and an IP address
>>>   Just to see what happened I started samba with both the newly created
>>> smb.conf and the old version, both seem to work fine. However I would rather
>>> not generate an error when I run testparm on the file. Any idea what I
>>> should add to get rid of the message?
>> How are you running testparm, is it just
>> testparm /usr/share/samba/smb.conf
>> or are you providing options also?
> I asked because:
> $ testparm /usr/share/samba/smb.conf something_that_should_not_be_there
> ERROR: You must specify both a machine name and an IP address.
>
> man testparm will explain why.
>
> Colin
>
no options
I will checkout man testparm though don't know why I didn't 
think about that!
                 Linda