On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:34:32PM +0200, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
| On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:55:14AM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| [...]
| > Yes, that was it! Thanks. I had configured xinetd to run smbd and
| > nmbd on-demand a while back, but forgot about it. Does samba work
| > when run from xinetd? I would rather have as few permanent services
| > on this machine as possible (i486, 8MB RAM) but the windo~1 machines
| > didn't see this one on the network before...
|
| Yes, samba works from xinetd but you must add a special flag for nmbd in
| xinetd.conf:
|
| service netbios-ns
| {
| flags = REUSE
| ...
|
| nmbd once started never exits - only when crashed :)
Ok, thanks. I guess if nmbd wasn't being run properly then that would
explain why the 'doze boxen never saw the Debian box.
| smbd starts and exits nicely when is invoked form xinetd.
Cool.
I'll try this tonight and see what happens.
-D
