I recently have installed Debian on my S/390 mainframe. I am running it under z/VM. I am somewhat new to the mainframe world so please be a little forgiving. I am working with a co-worker who has a good bit of knowledge in that area but I maintain the Linux server. I am moving my printers from Novell to Linux. I installed Woody from CD's I created using jigdo with the security updates from the Debian FTP site. I installed woody on a PC in a remote site the same way. I copied the Samba and LPRng config files from the mainframe installation to the PC installation so that the configurations would be the same. The question I have is in Samba. On the mainframe installation, I do not have an nmbd process running and cannot seem to start it. It is running on the PC server in my remote site. Is there a known issue concerning this? I did a search on the internet and didn't find anything. What impact does not having nmbd have? I can find my server and print to it without any difficulty. From what I understand of nmbd, NetBIOS will not work without it but that doesn't seem to restrict my ability to run as a print server.
Thanks!
Sam Warren, Jr.
Computer Technician
Winnebago Industries
641-585-3535 ext. 7785
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