Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 03:25:38PM -0700, Alan M Wright wrote: >>> It's not needed by either the SMB server nor the SMB client? >> Other services (such as the SMB server or client) can specify nbtd >> as a dependency but I think that's outside the scope of this fasttrack. >> From the nbtd perspective, it is only started on demand, which may >> be as a result of an 'svcadm enable -r ...' > > Right, but I think the real question is: does this change how users are > expected to enable the SMB service? And since the SMB service can be > enabled indirectly via sharectl, IIRC, shouldn't sharectl learn to do > this?
It shouldn't change how the SMB service is started. We currently advise users to use '-r' to ensure that idmapd is started, which can also start nbtd. I don't smbd (smb/server) is started by sharectl. Alan
