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