smbd purpose?
Dr Robert Young
rcyoung at aliconsultants.com
Fri Nov 25 16:19:57 GMT 2005
Here is what I see from "show system" while I am connected and have
the directories mounted on my PC. I have copied files from the VMS
system to the desktop w/out trouble.
Welcome to OpenVMS (TM) Alpha Operating System, Version V7.3 on
node LURKER
Last interactive login on Friday, 25-NOV-2005 08:34:34.36
Last non-interactive login on Thursday, 24-NOV-2005 11:01:08.26
$ sh system
OpenVMS V7.3 on node LURKER 25-NOV-2005 11:10:52.96 Uptime 10
00:11:57
Pid Process Name State Pri I/O CPU Page
flts Pages
00000201 SWAPPER HIB 16 0 0 00:00:01.24
0 0
00000204 LANACP HIB 13 54 0 00:00:00.09
91 115
00000206 FASTPATH_SERVER HIB 10 9 0 00:00:00.02
70 84
00000207 IPCACP HIB 10 10 0 00:00:00.02
31 42
00000208 ERRFMT HIB 8 27519 0 00:00:22.45
96 112
0000020A OPCOM LEF 6 173805 0 00:02:13.30
1829 49
0000020B AUDIT_SERVER HIB 10 101 0 00:00:00.29
138 168
0000020C JOB_CONTROL HIB 8 545 0 00:00:00.96
58 81
0000020E QUEUE_MANAGER HIB 10 1343 0 00:00:02.08
130 164
0000020F SECURITY_SERVER HIB 10 59 0 00:05:44.19
576 230
00000210 ACME_SERVER HIB 9 73 0 00:00:00.16
416 409 M
00000212 DNS$ADVER LEF 5 170245 0 00:01:38.21
1717 771
00000213 LES$ACP_V30 HIB 10 122 0 00:00:00.10
73 85
00000214 NET$ACP HIB 5 85 0 00:00:00.15
158 159
00000215 REMACP HIB 9 26 0 00:00:00.00
36 23
00000216 NET$EVD HIB 6 20 0 00:01:36.15
358 194
00000217 DTSS$CLERK LEF 12 10803 0 00:00:10.38
149 189
00000218 TP_SERVER HIB 10 57787 0 00:01:52.19
73 95
00000219 TCPIP$TNS1 HIB 4 54 0 00:00:00.11
222 135
0000021A TCPIP$INETACP HIB 8 588 0 00:00:00.51
179 130
0000021B TCPIP$PORTM_1 LEF 10 32701 0 00:00:18.02
283 185 N
0000021C TCPIP$FTP_1 LEF 10 444 0 00:00:00.37
626 227 N
0000021D TCPIP$LPD_QUEUE HIB 5 55 0 00:00:00.10
246 112
0000021E TCPIP$NFS_1 HIB 10 181 0 00:00:00.25
494 186 N
00000220 TCPIP$PCNFSD_1 LEF 10 153 0 00:00:00.16
338 161 N
00000226 TCPIP$FTPC00002 LEF 6 109 0 00:00:00.11
270 188 N
00000227 TCPIP$FTPC00004 LEF 6 105 0 00:00:00.13
273 183 N
000002A8 SMBD_ROBERT-YOU LEF 8 3734 0 00:00:02.66
722 568 N
000002AC SMBD_ROBERT-YOU LEF 8 5710 0 00:00:06.73
673 568 N
000002B0 SMBD_ROBERT-YOU LEF 8 7258 0 00:00:09.63
705 571 N
000002B4 SMBD_ROBERT-YOU LEF 8 5421 0 00:00:06.48
742 556 N
000002B8 SMBD_ROBERT-YOU LEF 7 6956 0 00:00:06.93
749 556 N
000002BC SMBD_ROBERT-YOU LEF 8 12270 0 00:00:29.28
750 562 N
000002D4 SMBD_ROBERT-YOU LEF 6 9084 0 00:00:17.89
716 572 N
000002D8 SMBD_ROBERT-YOU LEF 8 3380 0 00:00:02.43
742 549 N
000002DC SMBD_ROBERT-YOU LEF 6 3482 0 00:00:02.58
745 549 N
000002E0 SMBD_ROBERT-YOU LEF 8 2763 0 00:00:01.94
748 549 N
000002E4 SMBD_ROBERT-YOU LEF 6 3118 0 00:00:02.35
673 558 N
000002E5 YOUNG CUR 0 7 119 0 00:00:00.13
245 111
$
The VMS version of "portmapper" is enabled, so I wondered if that was
handling things?
$ tcpip show service
Service Port Proto Process
Address State
FTP 21 TCP TCPIP$FTP
0.0.0.0 Enabled
LPD 515 TCP TCPIP$LPD
0.0.0.0 Enabled
MOUNT 10 TCP,UDP TCPIP$MOUNTD
0.0.0.0 Disabled
NFS 2049 UDP TCPIP$NFS
0.0.0.0 Enabled
PCNFS 5151 TCP,UDP TCPIP$PCNFSD
0.0.0.0 Enabled
PORTMAPPER 111 TCP,UDP TCPIP$PORTM
0.0.0.0 Enabled
RDBSERVER 611 TCP RDB71
0.0.0.0 Disabled
TELNET 23 TCP not defined
0.0.0.0 Enabled
On Nov 25, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Boyce, Nick wrote:
> [Disclaimer: I'm not really a VMS person - just a lurking Samba-on-
> Unix
> list member]
>
> Robert Young asked :
>
>> [I disabled the smbd service but] samba is working just fine ...
>> What is the purpose of the smbd service exactly ?
>
> smbd is a fundamental and vital part of Samba, responsible for
> performing the actual data transfers involved in file access. That
> being the case, it's hard to understand how your Samba can possibly be
> "working fine".
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