On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:34:32PM +0200, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
| On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:55:14AM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| [...]
| > Does samba work when run from xinetd?
|
| 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.
Hmm, I couldn't get either nmbd or smbd to work from xinetd. I added
that flag for nmbd, but the windows box didn't know the machine
existed. Then I tried nmbd as standalone and smbd from xinted. The
windows box know the machine was there (nmbd functionalit) but
couldn't see any shares on it (smbd functionality).
I think it might be an issue with timeouts -- windows isn't waiting
long enough for xinetd to startup then handoff the socket to the
proper daemon. Is there any way I can change the timeouts on the
windows box, or make xinetd respond faster? (windows 98 -- probably
the first edition as I got the machine in august '98)
Thanks,
-D
PS. Just a note for other users: windo~1 still has stupid
hard-coded path length limits -- samba share names can't be any
longer than 13 characters or windows will say "Couldn't access the
share name '%s'. Make sure you typed it correctly", but it
truncates the name.
