Embedding samba...

Peter J. Holzer hjp at wsr.ac.at
Wed Feb 16 15:51:30 GMT 2000


On 2000-02-16 12:01:57 +1100, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> So, I setup smbd to run from inetd.conf, so that a new process is
> exec()ed for each connection. This works, no real fundamental problem.
> I can access directories and files from win9X systems on the network.
> 
> The downside of this approach is that it is really slow, since it
> needs to spawn an ~800k smbd for each connection.

Smbd connections are usually quite long-lived, so this shouldn't make
much of a difference, IMHO.

	hp

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