Samba's nmbd daemon

[Rick Rosinski]

Well, I have been busy setting up samba, have read the howto, and the man 
pages.  I also checked out a samba article on linux-mag.com.  Samba seems to 
load successfully, and there is a process ID for the smbd daemon, but there 
is *no* process id for the nmbd daemon (checked this using "ps -A | more").  
I have read that the nmbd daemon is responsible for NetBIOS and name 
resolution between the machines.  No matter what I try, Windows' "Network 
Neighborhood" doesn't show any connection to my linux host.  And I think it 
is because nmbd will not stay running for some reason (and there is no error 
message, it just won't stay running).  Here is my smb.conf and my rc.samba 
scripts.  Any advice is definitely appreciated.

My smb.conf

       ; /etc/smb.conf
       ;
       ; Make sure and restart the server after making changes to this file, 
ex:
       ; /etc/rc.d/rc.samba stop
       ; /etc/rc.d/rc.samba start

       [global]
       ; Uncomment this if you want a guest account
       ; guest account = nobody
          workgroup = WORKGROUP
          hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127.
          log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m
          lock directory = /var/lock/samba
          share modes = Yes
          bind interfaces only = No
          load printers = Yes
          guest only = Yes
          writeable = Yes
          browsable = Yes
          public = Yes
          socket options = TCP_NODELAY
          path = /

       [homes]
          comment = Home Directories
          path = /
          read only = No
          create mode = 0750
          guest only = Yes
          writeable = Yes
          browsable = Yes
          public = Yes

#       [inkjet]
#         comment = "Inkjet"
#         path=/var/spool/lpd/psjet
#         printer = psjet
#         read only = No
#         public = Yes
#         guest only = Yes
#         printable = Yes
#         print command = lpr -r -h -P%p %s



       [tmp]
          comment = Temporary file space
          path = /tmp
          read only = no
          public = yes

       [public]
          comment = Public Stuff
          path = /
          public = yes
          guest only = Yes
          writable = yes
          printable = no
          create mode = 0750
          browsable = Yes
         
My rc.samba

      #!/bin/sh

      #
      # /etc/rc.d/rc.samba - starts and stops SMB services.
      #
      # The following files should be synbolic links to this file:
      # symlinks: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K35smb  (Kills SMB services on shutdown)
      #           /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S91smb  (Starts SMB services in multiuser 
mode)
      #           /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K35smb  (Kills SMB services on reboot)
      #

      # Source function library.
      # . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

      # Source networking configuration.
      # . /etc/sysconfig/network

      # Check that networking is up.
      # [ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0

      # See how we were called.
      case "$1" in
        start)
          echo -n "Starting SMB services: "
          /usr/sbin/smbd -D
          /usr/sbin/nmbd -D
          echo
          touch /var/lock/subsys/smb
          ;;
        stop)
          echo -n "Shutting down SMB services: "
          killproc smbd
          killproc nmbd
          rm -f /var/lock/subsys/smb
          echo ""
          ;;
        *)
          echo "Usage: smb {start|stop}"
          exit 1
      esac




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Rick Rosinski
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