Re: Samba running under inetd and init.d

[Damien Solley <dsolley@student.usyd.edu.au>]

On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 21:37, John M. Purser wrote:
> Good Morning,
> 
> A few days ago I installed Samba on my Woody box.  All was well for a couple
> of days then smbd stopped running with an error message that said port 139
> was already in use.  With help from this group I tracked down inetd as the
> culprit and sure enough there were lines to start Samba in it.  I was
> puzzled and checked /etc/rc3.d and found a script named S20Samba.  It looks
> like both the init.d scripts and inetd are trying to run Samba.  I installed
> from the stable .deb.  Did I do something wrong?
> 
> John Purser

dpkg-reconfigure samba will allow you to choose which method you wish to
run samba under. 
-- 
Damien Solley
dsolley@student.usyd.edu.au