Samba 2.2.8 not starting

[Brian Tillman]

> When i start up samba with samba_startup, it gets registered with the 
> tcpip stack on my vms system. But the nmbd process dies right after 
> the startup...

NMBD is a service.  It should be created each time someone requests access,
just like the FTP server.  It's not supposed to hang around.

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