[Samba] idmap positive caching

Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 09:08:22 MST 2010


On 01/12/10 10:58, Wasim Bashir wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way of changing the default idmap caching ? I believe it is
> current set to 1 week. I am using samba 3.3.9.
>
> Also any ideas why when this cache expires it does not renew which means I
> have to do a net cache flush to clear the cache ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Wasim
>    
If should be the "idmap cache time" parameter in smb.conf.    But I have 
the same problem with Samba 3.0.x on Solaris 10.  From my testing it 
looks like samba 3.4.x behaves better.


I was not aware oif the "net cache flush" command-  so I may add that as 
a cron job to my samba 3.0.x systems.




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