Samba frustrations on reboot... fix!

[John E. Malmberg]

[posted to comp.os.vms also]
I usually define the rooted logical names in the SYLOGICALS.COM phase of
the boot.  Of course that just hides the problem.

When putting things in the system startup with multiple dependencies,
all sorts of problems can occur.

The dissapearing batch jobs on reboot is another such problem.  In this
case the batch job starts running before the resources that it uses have
been set up, like a database service.

With SAMBA, the issue is that the logical names, and images need to be
installed before the TCP/IP program is started, but the NMBD process
must be started after the TCP/IP program is started.

So there are some things to consider on getting this right.  It also
looks like a future version of SAMBA would need to have the NMBD process
started as a TCPIP service, so that might simplify it.

On many systems the network protocol stacks must be started really early
in the boot process because so much may depend on it.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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