On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:21:36PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Aha, so that's what the third one is. As I don't do printer sharing this > possibility slipped my mind. I'm not so resource constrained as to start > hacking source. I always stick with my distro's packages unless extreme > circumstances require going to source, and this really isn't one of them. > > Maybe there could be a future smb.conf option to completely disable printer > sharing and the launch of the deamon process?
Good point, I'll think about this. > I noticed in the documentation I quoted earlier something about running Samba > from inetd. Is this (easily) doable? Would running from inetd be > advantageous > in my low resource consumption scenario, processes exiting after a period of > inactivity? Or would this cause more problems than it would solve? Should work. Log a bug if it doesn't. It will also prevent the backend printer smbd from running as well. > P.S. We briefly met once a few years ago when you were in St. Louis. You > stopped by Whitfield School to troubleshoot an issue with the AD code. I was > the sysadmin there at the time. You were working for Novell at that time. Oh that's great ! I am actually wearing my green Whitfield School fleese right now ! It's one of my favourite items of clothing :-). Thanks, Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba