questions about HD size; and daemon.

Michal heja at xox.pl
Tue May 11 13:51:08 GMT 1999


Laurent Bardi wrote:
> 
> -why the smbd daemon does not run as <user> and run as root (perhaps it is
> unsecure to ask for that?) but it will be more easy for admin to see who is
> connected (ps) ?
> 

Well, because it accesses other shares apart from \homes, and it changes
effective UID depending on this and settings in smb.conf. It is quite
easy to admin, though, because we have smbstatus command :-)

As for the rest of questions, maybe some more experienced guru will
anwer ? ;-)

Michal


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