Time for gpupdate

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Sun Mar 14 12:11:57 UTC 2021


On 13/03/2021 09:40, Stefan Kania via samba-technical wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I still trying Linux-client-GPOs. Now I read in the manpage of smb.conf:
> ---------------
> The Group Policy update interval is defined as every 90 minutes, plus a
> random offset between 0 and 30 minutes.
> ---------------
> The wiki: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Group_Policy
> says:
> ---------
> Policies are enforced by winbind at a random interval between 90 and 120
> seconds.
> ---------
> What is the right time?
>

Probably both 😁

 From my reading of this, 'Group Policy update' runs 'gpupdate' and 
'winbind' enforces the Policies, so they are doing different things.

Rowland





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