nmbd does not start without smbd (fwd)
Andrew Tridgell
tridge at samba.org
Sat Dec 5 00:34:56 GMT 1998
> > I would recommend that an option be added to smbpasswd to generate the SID
> > and that this runs as part of 'make install'. If no SID exists then smbd
> > and nmbd should fail to start.
>
> ah. that sounds like a good idea to me.
no, I don't think we want that. It just makes the whole system more
fragile.
I think we remove the dependence on the SID from nmbd. It's
unnecessary, as I explain in another email.
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