Re: SAMBA not running

[Nate Amsden <aphro@portal.aphroland.org>]

Agner-Nichols wrote:
> 
> Wondering if anyone might have some insight on why my smbd server is not running.  SMB filesystem support is compiled into a 2.2.17  kernel (running on a Dell pentium 166).   Per the SMB-HOWTO, /etc/services has:
> 
> netbios-ns 137/tcp  nbns
> netbios-ns 137/ucp  nbns
> netbios-dgm 138/tcp  nbdgm
> netbios-dgm 138/ucp  nbdgm
> netbios-ssn 139/tcp  nbssn
> 
> And /etc/inetd.conf has:
> 
> netbios-ssn  stream  tcp  nowait  root  /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/smbd -a
> netbios-ns  dgram  udp  wait  root  /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/nmbd -a
> 
> Running ps aux does not show smbd, but the nmbd server is running.

inetd only loads smbd when it is needed. nmbd was requested for some reason so
inetd loaded it. i prefer to run my samba outside of inetd.

nate


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