On 19 Nov 2002 08:15:31 +1100 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 07:46, Stormjumper wrote: > > thank you stephen. > > > > the issue is not so much my smb.conf, > > since killing the 2nd smbd process solves the problems. > > > > rather, i'm stumped as to which script/tool is starting > > smbd the 2nd time. > > > > if i can turn that off, my problem will be solved. > > > > thanks > > > > Have you checked through all of your init scripts? It is nice to be > able to start them manually - or at least after you've booted up (if > you reboot or turn off your machine). I used to run my SMB that way, > but got lazy with age and let it start automatically... > > Were there any discrepancies in the SWAT or SMB configuration? And > keep in mind that smb and nbmd run hand-in-hand...it is rather > strange, tho that other instances of smb start up after a login > attempt...hmmm... to be honest, i'm not really sure how to go thru my init scripts. i tried as root in /etc 'grep -r smbd *' and it gave me a whole list of stuff in init.d that i didn't have the confident to change. i also figured that if my problems were with the 2nd instance, fault shouldn't lie with init.d. in fact, i would think that nmbd and smbd were correctly started at boot, but an entry in inetd was spawning it again. the problem with this line of thot is that mdk8.2 uses xinetd, and i didn't find any references to smbd, (which may be 'cos i'm not that familiar with xinetd and doesn't know where to look) does any of this make sense? does anyone know where smbd could possibly have been called from? thanks.
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