i tried this, maybe i'm missing something. when you do ip alias, you can bind to both ports for smbd and nmbd on both address, right? making a illusion on the network that there are actuall two physical machine. Could you send me a detail description? If, possible. It will help a lot for me. time is valuable. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Steve Lee wrote: > > > Has anyone setup samba to run on two separate config files? > > I would like to run samba as a file server and a print server, > > but have the name display as "Print Server" and "File Server" > > > > I have the running as just one name. > > For clarity and beauty, but don't have the resource to > > run two separate servers for each. > > > > I have tried starting samba as > > smbd -D -s configfile1 > > nmbd -D -s configfile1 > > smbd -D -s configfile2 > > nmbd -D -s configfile2 > > > > but doesn't work. > > I even tried, IP alias and bind each config file to > > an ip address, but the second config file > > won't startup. > > > > I need some help Please. > > > > > You should only need one copy of nmbd. Now, to make two smbd, you are > going to have to do something along the lines of using IP aliasing, and > binding each copy of smbd to a specific interface. Otherwise, when you > try to start the other copy of smbd, it will error out with a port already > in use error. Two copies of smbd can not share the same port, and if you > run on copy on a different port, windows will not find it. The default > setting will have smbd and nmbd using port 137 and 139 on all interfaces. > > Mikkel > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
