Required Services for Samba?

[Ken Walker]

I have been working on setting up IP MASQ on my home network (using 
RH6 as server with dial up modem connection and Win98 on another 
computer as a client) and making some changes to services the Linux 
box runs with security concerns in mind as recommended by Robert 
Ziegler's Linux Firewall and Security site at
http://rlz.ne.mediaone.net/linux/
and in doing that removed some services using ksysv.

The ones I removed were amongst this list: amd, autofs, gated, nfs, 
nfsfs, routed, snmpd and ypbind.  I don't have much of a handle on 
what these various services do but taking them away hasn't seemed to
create any problems (except the one described below).  I am still able to
run KDE without a problem.  

But when I am using Midnight Commander in text mode, every once in a while
the usual screen will be replaced by a stream of error messages that seem
to be coming from queries that the Win98 machine sends to the Samba server
I run on the Linux machine.  The messages are not formatted properly but
complain of the lack of a WINS server.  When I get these messages, if I
type the clear command, I get my MC screen back and can carry on.

I suppose this is an elementary problem but since I am at a less than
elementary skill level with networking and Linux, I don't know where to
look to solve it.  I don't know whether one of the services needs to go
back in or whether I have to reconfigure some network or Samba
configuration files to deal with the problem.

Any suggestions?



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Ken Walker mailto:kwalker at island.net http://www.island.net/~kwalker/
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