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Using Samba
Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly
1st Edition November 1999
1-56592-449-5, Order Number: 4495
416 pages, $34.95
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Samba has several options that appeared around the time of Samba 2.0, but are not entirely supported. However, we will give you a brief overview of their workings in this section. These options are shown in
Table 8.9.
Table 8.9: Recently Added Options
Option |
Parameters |
Function |
Default |
Scope |
change notify timeout |
numerical (number of seconds) |
Sets the interval between checks when a client asks to wait for a change in a specified directory. |
60 |
Global |
machine password timeout |
numerical (number of seconds) |
Sets the renewal interval for NT domain machine passwords. |
604,800 (1 week) |
Global |
stat cache |
boolean |
If
yes , Samba will cache recent name mappings. |
yes |
Global |
stat cache size |
numerical |
Sets the size of the stat cache. |
50 |
Global |
The
change
notify
timeout global option emulates a Windows NT SMB feature called
change notification. This allows a client to request that a Windows NT server periodically monitor a specific directory on a share for any changes. If any changes occur, the server will notify the client.
As of version 2.0, Samba will perform this function for its clients. However, performing these checks too often can slow the server down considerably. This option sets the time period that Samba should wait between such checks. The default is one minute (60 seconds); however, you can use this option to specify an alternate time that Samba should wait between performing checks:
[global]
change notify timeout = 30
The
machine
password
timeout global option sets a retention period for NT domain machine passwords. The default is currently set to the same time period that Windows NT 4.0 uses: 604,800 seconds (one week). Samba will periodically attempt to change the
machine account password, which is a password used specifically by another server to report changes to it. This option specifies the number of seconds that Samba should wait before attempting to change that password. The following example changes it to a single day, by specifying the following:
[global]
machine password timeout = 86400
The
stat
cache global option turns on caching of recent case-insensitive name mappings. The default is
yes . The Samba team recommends that you never change this parameter.
The
stat
cache
size global option sets the size of the cache entries to be used for the
stat
cache option. The default here is 50. Again, the Samba team recommends that you never change this parameter.
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