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. -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 OpenLDAP by Example, ISBN: 0131488732 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
