Hi, I run a little router/firewall that also acts as a print server for the linux and win98 clients on the LAN. I have the harddisk configured so that if there is little activity, it spins down (hdparm -S 12 /dev/hda).
I added smbd/nmbd today and with the two services running, the hard disk drive spins down but wakes up about every 12 minutes. Without the services, only a major event causes them to wake-up (daily cron, login, etc). My goal is to keep the hdd in sleep mode as much as possible. 1) Why is [ns]mbd checking the drive? 2) How do I make it stop doing this and only turn the drives on for a mandatory event (such as reading a file that is not cached)? I am only using the box as a printserver as far as samba is concerned. Thank you, Elizabeth -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
