[Samba] winbind: does it actually depend on nmbd? and network-online?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 12:17:43PM +0100, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>On Thu, 2 May 2024 13:44:47 +0300
>Michael Tokarev via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>
>> Note nmbd needs network to be online.  While winbind only needs
>> network to be up.  If winbind requires nmbd, who in turn requires
>> network to be online, winbind will be started only with online
>> network.  If we drop winbind dependency on nmbd here, winbind will
>> be started earlier, before network is online.
>>
>> Does winbind requires network to be online or just up?
>
>No idea about that, perhaps Jeremy will know.

What's the difference between "online" and "up" ?