Re: [newbie] M9.0 / NMB Services
On Sunday 03 November 2002 12:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I keep getting error messages in the shutdown script for NMB Serices. I cannot find any references to NMB services, so unable to tackle the problem. What are NMB Serices and any ideas as to what I should do. John The startup / shutdown scripts of Mandrake are ill-minded anyway, so I always write my own. But I think NMB refers to the nmbd, which belongs to the Samba package. It's the nebios name service daemon as a counterpart to smbd. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.0 / NMB Services
Frank Mertens wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 12:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I keep getting error messages in the shutdown script for NMB Serices. I cannot find any references to NMB services, so unable to tackle the problem. What are NMB Serices and any ideas as to what I should do. John The startup / shutdown scripts of Mandrake are ill-minded anyway, so I always write my own. But I think NMB refers to the nmbd, which belongs to the Samba package. It's the nebios name service daemon as a counterpart to smbd. Frank Thanks Frank, That has given me something to go on. I visited MCC - services , and noted no samba listed, which isn't surprising because I didn''t install samba in the first place. There is something called SMB which is running on boot. Seems to me then that there is a piece of unwanted script in the shutdown script that is seeking to close nmbd when no such device exists. If this is so is it difficult to rewrite boot and shutdown scripts. I'm guessing that they are probably bash scripts set up in some file that is read at boot and shutdown and using a text editor with care one can write or rewite them , is that so ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.0 / NMB Services
Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 02:24, Frank Mertens wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 12:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I keep getting error messages in the shutdown script for NMB Serices. I cannot find any references to NMB services, so unable to tackle the problem. What are NMB Serices and any ideas as to what I should do. John The startup / shutdown scripts of Mandrake are ill-minded anyway, so I always write my own. But I think NMB refers to the nmbd, which belongs to the Samba package. It's the nebios name service daemon as a counterpart to smbd. Frank If you installed the latest initscripts package from Mandrake Update that may be the problem. (initscripts-6.91-13.1mdk.i586.rpm) It has problems. The update advisory from Mandrake says it fixes some problems with some locales and corrects some issues with wireless link detection. Since I primarily use my Dell I4000 MDK9.0 wirelessly. I went ahead and installed it, even though I wasn't having any problems with my wireless link detection. Boy was that a mistake... I took me 6 hours to get my laptop back to the way it was before I installed the 'update'. I had to force remove the update and reinstall the original initscripts rpm (initscripts-6.91-10mdk.i586.rpm) Then had to bootup in maintenance mode three times to fix everything that broke when I removed the update. Here are some of the 'features' of the 'updated' initscripts-6.91-13.1mdk.i586.rpm that I experienced... YMMV. 1. NMB fails to start when booting. 2. SMB and NMB both fail to shutdown. 3. Wireless card is unable to detect a DHCP server on boot. If you are NOT in one of the affected locales and you are NOT having having any issues with wireless link detection, I would recommend you skip this update. Chuck, I am so glad I didn't then. Not only did I not install the undate until a few hours ago I didn't even have the slightest knowledge what NMB was about, actually all I wanted to do was to do something about the shutdaown error message I keep getting. I don't really know what to do if anything, I suppose I could just ignore it, but it irks me to see this M9.0 shutdown error message. I don't actually need wireless connection at all, or do I , doesn't that depend upon programmes like real player being installed. As you can see I'm still guessing what NMB is all about John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.0 / NMB Services
SNIP As you can see I'm still guessing what NMB is all about John nmb is part of SAMBA. That smb process you have running is samba server. Failures in nmb when shutting down samba is common (I think when there are no windows machines connected to samba) It is nothing to worry about. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] M9.0 / NMB Services
I keep getting error messages in the shutdown script for NMB Serices. I cannot find any references to NMB services, so unable to tackle the problem. What are NMB Serices and any ideas as to what I should do. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
