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Is there a way to unambiguously get the running config of a samba daemon?

I can't find any reference to it in the manual. Of course you run testparm, but that would only show the validity of the explicit configuration; I would also like to the see the implicit config which is loaded

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    Why not just look at /etc/samba/smb.conf? That's samba's config file.
    – Nasir Riley
    May 31, 2019 at 22:49
  • But I also want to see the things that are not explicitly stated in the config file
    – hbogert
    Jun 1, 2019 at 6:24
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    testparm -v should show the default settings as well.
    – Thomas
    Jun 1, 2019 at 10:18
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    my original problem is that I have two instances of samba on different nodes, same config files, same version, yet different behaviour. So I wanted to verify that the configs loaded "in mem", at runtime, are the same. Tbh, I am not sure how I can be more clear than using the term "running config". the testparm -v is enlightening, but still does not ask the running process for its running config. It's like asking for the current running firewall and you want me to look at e.g., /etc/iptables.save instead of invoking iptables -L
    – hbogert
    Jun 1, 2019 at 20:34
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    Another valid reason for such a command would be to verify that on-the-fly edits to smb.conf have been hot-reloaded, as Samba should. In fact this is the reason I found my way to this question.
    – cyqsimon
    Jul 2, 2021 at 7:34

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