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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