The Samba folks generally don't recommend running SMBD from inetd. There's more overhead if you have more than a couple of clients, since (IIRC) this will start a separate instance for each connection. When it runs standalone, it runs a thread per connection.
If you installed an RPM, there should have been startup scripts installed in /etc/init.d for smb and winbindd. The smb script starts both smbd and nmbd. If you're building from scratch, there are sample scripts for the major distros in subdirectories under "packaging". They might requre some massaging to work correctly. > -----Original Message----- > From: richard truett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 1:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] getting to samba > > > After you configure /etc/smb.conf to your installation you > can place the > following in /etc/inetd.conf to start Samba automatically. > > netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/smbd smbd -D > netbios-ns dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/nmbd nmbd -D > > or you could start the services by: > > cd /usr/sbin > ./smbd -D > ./nmbd -D > > of course "/usr/sbin" may not be where your Samba resides. > It could be in > /usr/local/samba/bin. > > > > "Noll, Ralph" wrote: > > > so how do i start samba.. smbd and nmbd > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 1:00 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: getting to samba > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:14:22AM -0600, Noll, Ralph wrote: > > > > zvmlinx2:~ # smbpasswd > > > > New SMB password: > > > > Retype new SMB password: > > > > Failed to find entry for user root. > > > > Failed to modify password entry for user root > > > > zvmlinx2:~ # smbpasswd > > > > New SMB password: > > > > Retype new SMB password: > > > > Failed to find entry for user root. > > > > Failed to modify password entry for user root > > > > zvmlinx2:~ # > > > > > > The option '-a' may come in handy. > > > > > > This is still not relevant to swat. In fact I believe that it is > > > generally a bad idea to allow root to connect throughsamba > > > > > > > > > A little advice, if I may: swat is just a nice web > interface. That's > > > all. Samba is perfectly functional without it. Get the > > > default smb.conf, > > > a decent text editor (IIRC both vim and emacs have syntax > > > hilighting for > > > this file) the docs, and configure it away. The default > file is well > > > commented. > > > > > > -- > > > Tzafrir Cohen > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ > > > >
