> So, I'm testing samba on a Lucid alpha 3, and I decide to restart the
> smbd daemon:

> sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
> sudo: /etc/init.d/samba: command not found

> Oops, I guess it's a service now?

> sudo service samba restart
> samba: unrecognized service

> So of course it only took a little digging to discover that smbd and
> nmbd are now services started separately, and that (bizarrely) there is
> now a winbind daemon which is still started from /etc/init.d, but
> nevertheless a bit unnerving. (And why and since when has winbind been a
> separate daemon, anyway?! But I digress.)

I assume that the samba job has been split into two because there was
a problem with nmbd not starting when smbd and nmbd were launched
through samba.

If you look at the respective conf files, you will see that nmbd
requires a nic other than lo to be up before starting.

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