Re: Samba won't start
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:55:14AM -0400, D-Man wrote:
[...]
> Yes, that was it! Thanks. I had configured xinetd to run smbd and
> nmbd on-demand a while back, but forgot about it. Does samba work
> when run from xinetd? I would rather have as few permanent services
> on this machine as possible (i486, 8MB RAM) but the windo~1 machines
> didn't see this one on the network before...
Yes, samba works from xinetd but you must add a special flag for nmbd in
xinetd.conf:
service netbios-ns
{
flags = REUSE
...
nmbd once started never exits - only when crashed :)
smbd starts and exits nicely when is invoked form xinetd.
Mirek
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