Shane C Branch said: > Whenever I stop the smb server (service smb stop) smbd reports stopping > successfully, but nmbd fails. When I try to get status on nmbd or try to > stop > nmbd it tells me there is no such service. Yes this is true. You know that it tries to stop when doing a "service smb stop", doesn't it stand to reason that "service smb start" and "service smb status" would also handle nmb? > Also, many times when I try to start samba, the system does not start nmbd > on > the first attempt, I have to repeat the command to get nmbd to start. > > What do I need to do to fix this? Lock at the log file and see why it is failing. It is in "/var/log/samba/" > I want smb started at boot, and if nmbd > is > needed for samba to work correctly, then I want it to start|stop|restart > as > samba goes. Which is why they are part of the same script used for the smb service. -- William Hooper
