smbd and nmbd are only used for serving linux filesystems to other machines. That's not the problem. I have noticed that the newer versions of smbmount let the connection time out and get closed.
Brian Stults wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using the samba client to mount NT drives to my linux box for > some time without any problems. Now, on my home linux box, I'm mounting > drives from my linux box at work. It works very well at first. > However, when I come back the next day, the mounted drive produces I/O > errors. It turns out that the smb and nmb daemons have automatically > unloaded from my work box. When I login to the remote machine and > restart samba, the drives can be mounted again. Why does this happen? > Is it related to the daemons versus inetd issue? I don't fully > understand this. There are entries in my inetd.conf like this: > > #:OTHER: Other services > #<off># netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/smbd > #<off># netbios-ns dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/nmbd -a > > But it appears they are commented out. I also have the standard startup > script in /etc/init.d for samba. I sifted through the SMB-HOWTO, but > couldn't find reference to this. Can someone help? > > Thanks. > -- > > Brian J. Stults > Doctoral Candidate > Department of Sociology > University at Albany - SUNY > Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 > Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452 > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
