workgroups with samba virtual server

[Yan Seiner]

I've looked at this; the biggest problem I see is that the various 
/var/lock/pid files are compiled in.  I have not found any conf file 
settings for this.  I have not pursued this a lot; but it seems to me 
that you would have to have separate binaries so the smbd and nmbd.pid 
files would not get messed up....

That's where I stopped.  I don't know how (or if) file locking would 
work with separate daemons accessing potentially the same files.

Any thoughts?  As I am "live" it's kind of hard for me to test what 
could potentially be a disastrous situation......

--Yan



David Collier-Brown wrote:

>emeric jarnier wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>anyone knows when it will be possible to set multiple workgroups using
>>multiple samba virtual servers??
>>It would really be useful.
>>By the way if anyone has ever gone over this problem, please share...
>>I have a samba server for about 100 computers and more than 500 acounts.
>>I plan to try to make some rooms only available for some users.
>>
>
>	That would require a very large source change: 
>	it's arguabley easier to run seperate servers
>	for each workgroup.
>
>	From memory, you need to start multiple
>	pairs of smbd and nmbd, with the
>	-l <log file> and -s <conf file> options
>	set.  The conf files will need to 
>	specify some different things, too,
>	such as, for example, username map.
>
>--dave
>