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...nmbd, so I tried to set "name cache timeout = 0" in my smbd.conf, but it doesn't changed anything. (I tried it with 3.0.4, not with 3.0.7, but I don't want to run my prod server without name caching...) Finally, I looked in the samba source code, and I found a function named set_remote_machine_name() (in lib/substitute.c) which might be the reason of my problem... It's the first time I take a look into the samba source code, and I don't understand well how it works, but the param "perm" of this function seems to define if smbd must look (or not) for the realname of the c...

Hi, In function auth3_check_password of file source3/auth/auth_ntlmssp.c, it load smb.conf by lp_load_with_shares(get_dyn_CONFIGFILE());. I am wondering why it is needed since smbd has load config before and it hurts the performance when smb.conf is large. Thanks, Haihua

I'm trying to see what computer is accessing certain files through samba, and the SWAT status page is a useful tool for that. Problem is that for some computers, only the IP address shows, not the NetBIOS name. This is only a problem with certain computers. Since we're using DHCP on many computers I don't always know off the top of my head what computer has any given IP