[Samba] Re: Question on Load Balancing between password server

[John H Terpstra]

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 10:29, Yimin Chen wrote:
> Hi John,
>
>
> Thanks for the clarification! How often does smbd check the file's
> time/date signiture? Everytime when a request needs to be transferred over?

If I recall, every 20 seconds or so. Check the sources - its all in the 
sources Luke. :)

- John T.

>
>
>
> Thanks!
> Yimin
>
> John H Terpstra wrote:
> > On Monday 20 September 2004 18:54, Yimin Chen wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I saw the following documentation regarding how to specify multiple
> >>domain controllers for Samba member server to authenticate a user:
> >>
> >>-------------------------------------------------------------
> >>“password server = DOMPDC DOMBDC1 DOMBDC2
> >>
> >>These are the primary and backup domain controllers Samba will attempt
> >>to contact in order to authenticate users. Samba will try to contact
> >>each of these servers in order, so you may want to rearrange this list
> >>in order to spread out the authentication load among domain
> >>controllers.”
> >>-------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>How can we rearrange the list while Samba server is already running? I
> >>suppose there must be a way to Samba server to pick up the changes
> >>without being restarted?
> >>
> >>Your suggestion is appreciated!
> >
> > smbd re-reads the smb.conf file when the time/date signature has changed.
> > In other words, it is automatically re-read after a change is made.
> >
> > - John T.

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