>From: "l. a. walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Running smb without nmb? (Linux Suse 8.1 feature)
>I recently upgraded my Linux distro to SuSE 8.1 which >came w/samba 2.2.5. > >A feature of the upgrade was that it 'split' the startup >script for samba from 1 script for _smb_ & _nmb_ to 2 scripts. > >Ok -- enough of my whining. Question is this: is there any good reason >for splitting the two or making so one is runnable w/o the other? That is cool. I thought that I was the only one who prefers not to run nmbd :) On my test systems I don't want to deal with WINS related traffic, and as a general practice prefer to limit the network services running on my servers to the minimum. Although that means the server will not be sending browser announcements which might make it harder for other servers to find mine, if you are configured for DFS (or perhaps with 3.0 servers publish your servers shares in ActiveDirectory) that may not be a big restriction. The Linux CIFS VFS is passed IP addresses and does not need/use Netbios names anyway so the RFC1001 support that nmbd helps with is not necessary. It is also a lot easier to only have to (re)start one daemon (smbd) when you are testing different versions of the server. Steve French Senior Software Engineer Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin phone: 512-838-2294 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]