<tbody>
<row>
<entry>account_policy</entry>
- <entry><para>User policy settings.</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>Samba/NT account policy settings, includes password expiration settings.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>group_mapping</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>ntdrivers</entry>
- <entry><para>Stores per-printer driver information.</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>Stores per-printer installed driver information.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>ntforms</entry>
- <entry><para>Stores per-printer forms information.</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>Stores per-printer installed forms information.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>ntprinters</entry>
<row>
<entry>registry</entry>
<entry><para>
- Read-only Samba registry skeleton that provides support for exporting various database tables
- via the winreg RPCs.
+ Read-only Samba database of a Windows registry skeleton that provides support for exporting
+ various database tables via the winreg RPCs.
</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
</row>
<row>
<entry>winbindd_idmap</entry>
- <entry><para>New ID map table from SIDS to UNIX UIDs/GIDs.</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>Winbindd's local IDMAP database.</para></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</row>
<row>
<entry>connections</entry>
- <entry><para>A temporary cache for current connection information.</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>A temporary cache for current connection information used to enforce max connections.</para></entry>
+ <entry>no</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>eventlog/*tdb</entry>
+ <entry><para>Records of eventlog entries. In most circumstances this is just a cache of system logs.</para></entry>
<entry>no</entry>
</row>
<row>
</row>
<row>
<entry>login_cache</entry>
- <entry><para>A temporary cache for login information.</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>A temporary cache for login information, in particular bad password attempts.</para></entry>
<entry>no</entry>
</row>
<row>
</row>
<row>
<entry>netsamlogon_cache</entry>
- <entry><para>Packets received for which no process is listening.</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>Caches user net_info_3 structure data from net_samlogon requests (as a domain member).</para></entry>
+ <entry>no</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>perfmon/*.tdb</entry>
+ <entry><para>Performance counter information.</para></entry>
<entry>no</entry>
</row>
<row>
</row>
<row>
<entry>sessionid</entry>
- <entry><para>Temporary cache for miscellaneous session information.</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>Temporary cache for miscellaneous session information and for utmp handling.</para></entry>
<entry>no</entry>
</row>
<row>
</row>
<row>
<entry>winbindd_cache</entry>
- <entry><para>Cache of Identity information received from an NT4 domain or from ADS.</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>Cache of Identity information received from an NT4 domain or from ADS. Includes user
+ lists, etc.</para></entry>
<entry>yes</entry>
</row>
</tbody>