[Samba] Which .tdb files are safe to remove?

[Nir Soffer]

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> From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter [mailto:jerry at samba.org]
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 7:49 PM
> To: Peter Sch?ller
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Which .tdb files are safe to remove?
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> On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Peter Schüller wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > which .tdb files in /var/lib/samba are safe to remove (rebuilt
> > automatically)?
> 
> This is for Samba 2.2:
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>  * nt*.tdb.  
>  * winbindd_idmap.tdb
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  * share_info.tdb
> 
> I thinks that's it.

I wouldn't remove the idmap if any users had files on the server. Their UIDs may get mixed up. Last I looked the idmap _was_ rebuilt, but on-the-fly on a first-come-first-served basis. In several times I removed it all the permissions were "mixed-up" after winbind ran again.

N.
 

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