... not trivial at all...
© 2011 Dennis Leeuw dleeuw at made-it dot com
License: GPLv2 or later
| Database | Use | Cleaned at start | Back up | Appeared | Removed |
| account_policy.tdb | SAMBA/NT account policy settings includes password expiration settings | ✓ | |||
| autorid.tdb | Mappings of which domain is mapped to which range | ✓ | |||
| brlock.tdb | Byte-range locking information | ||||
| browse.dat | browse lists, gets rebuilt automatically | ✓ | |||
| connections.tdb | A temporary cache of current connections (used to enforce max connections) | ✓ | |||
| g_lock.tdb | Global locking information | ✓ | |||
| gencache.tdb | Generic caching database for dead WINS servers and trusted domain data. | ✓ | |||
| gencache_notrans.tdb | ✓ | ||||
| group_mapping.tdb | Mapping table from Windows group SID to Unix group, not used when using the LDAP backend | ✓ | |||
| idmap_cache.tdb | If you have set 'idmap alloc backend = tdb' you end up with a file called idmap_cache.tdb | ✓ | |||
| idmap2.tdb | |||||
| lang_en.tdb | Language encodings | ✓ | |||
| locking.tdb | Stores share modes and oplock information | ✓ | |||
| login_cache.tdb | A temporary cache for login information, esp. for bad passwords attempts. | ||||
| messages.tdb | Used to keep track of SAMBA (smbd) internal messaging | ✓ | |||
| mutex.tdb | |||||
| netsamlogon_cache.tdb | Caches user net_info_3 struct from net_samlogon() requests from domain member machines | 1 | ✓ | ||
| notify.tdb | ✓ | ||||
| notify_onelevel.tdb | ✓ | ||||
| ntdrivers.tdb | Stores per-printer installed driver information | ✓ | 3.6 | ||
| ntforms.tdb | Stores per-printer installed forms information | ✓ | 3.6 | ||
| ntprinters.tdb | Stores per-printer devmode configuration settings | ✓ | 3.6 | ||
| passdb.tdb | User account information if passdb backend = tdbsam is used. This file stores the SambaSAMAccount informarion. Note: This file requires that POSIX information for a user is available to the system. | ✓ | |||
| printer_list.tdb | ✓ | ||||
| printing/ | Directory containing cached output from the lpq command created on a per print service basis | ✓ | |||
| registry.tdb | Read-only SAMBA database of a Windows registry skeleton that provides support for exporting various database tables via the winreg RPCs (connect via regedit.exe) | ✓ | |||
| schannel_store.tdb | A confidential in the PRIVATE_DIR containing cryptographic connection information so that clients that have temporarily disconnected can reconnect without needing to renegotiate the connection setup process. This stores secure channel access token information used with SMB signing. | ✓ | |||
| secrets.tdb | This database stores the internal settings such as the machine and the domain SID, secret passwords that are used with LDAP, machine secret token, etc. This is an essential file that is stored in a secure area (PRIVATE_DIR). Vendors locate this in various folders. Check smbd -b to find its location. | ✓ | |||
| sessionid.tdb | Temporary cache for session information and to support 'utmp = yes' handling | ✓ | |||
| share_info.tdb | Stores share-level ACL configuration settings. Default ACL is Everyone - Full Control | ✓ | |||
| unexpected.tdb | unexpected packet queue needed to support windows clients that respond on a difference port than the originating request | ✓ | 3.6 | ||
| winbindd_cache.tdb | winbindd's cache of user lists received from an NT4 domain or from ADS. | 1 | |||
| winbindd_idmap.tdb | winbindd's local IDMAP database | ✓ | |||
| wins.dat | wins database when 'wins support = yes' has been set. This gets rebuilt or updated at every restart. | ✓ | |||
| wins.tdb | The working permanent storage for all WINS data. This database is used only when 'wins support = yes' has been set. Note: This retains all manually configured WINS entries. Manual setting can be done by using the net utility. | ✓ | |||
| xattr.tdb |
1The database is only cleared at startup if the database is corrupt.