[Samba] swat

Bradley W. Langhorst brad at langhorst.com
Wed Dec 4 13:50:47 GMT 2002


On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 14:23, Yousef I. Adan wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> Why Swat strips all comment lines from the smb.conf? I couldn't find
> any field or tab that deals with this, but when I edited the smb.conf
> with Swat, my smb.conf became 'nude', so to speak.
>  
> Thanks in advance.

smb.conf is re-read by every samba process every n seconds (not sure of
current value of n probably less than 60)

any extraneous information in there slows things down. Swat just
puts in what is necessary (ie not-defaults and no comments)

brad
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Bradley W. Langhorst <brad at langhorst.com>




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