On Tuesday 21 September 2004 10:29, Yimin Chen wrote: > Hi John, > > > Thanks for the clarification! How often does smbd check the file's > time/date signiture? Everytime when a request needs to be transferred over?
If I recall, every 20 seconds or so. Check the sources - its all in the sources Luke. :) - John T. > > > > Thanks! > Yimin > > John H Terpstra wrote: > > On Monday 20 September 2004 18:54, Yimin Chen wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>I saw the following documentation regarding how to specify multiple > >>domain controllers for Samba member server to authenticate a user: > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------------- > >>“password server = DOMPDC DOMBDC1 DOMBDC2 > >> > >>These are the primary and backup domain controllers Samba will attempt > >>to contact in order to authenticate users. Samba will try to contact > >>each of these servers in order, so you may want to rearrange this list > >>in order to spread out the authentication load among domain > >>controllers.” > >>------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >>How can we rearrange the list while Samba server is already running? I > >>suppose there must be a way to Samba server to pick up the changes > >>without being restarted? > >> > >>Your suggestion is appreciated! > > > > smbd re-reads the smb.conf file when the time/date signature has changed. > > In other words, it is automatically re-read after a change is made. > > > > - John T. -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 OpenLDAP by Example, ISBN: 0131488732 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba