[Samba] Samba is having babies

[John Schmerold]

I start Samba as follows in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
[root at FS1 etc]# cat /etc/rc.d/rc.local | grep smb
service smb start
[root at FS1 etc]#

For reasons that aren't clear to me, additional processes are fired up:
[root at FS1 etc]# ps -Af | grep mbd
root      1197     1  0 Jul28 ?        00:00:00 smbd -D
root      1202     1  0 Jul28 ?        00:00:02 nmbd -D
root      1206  1202  0 Jul28 ?        00:00:00 nmbd -D
root      2507  1197  0 Jul29 ?        00:00:22 smbd -D
root      4981  1197  0 05:45 ?        00:00:14 smbd -D
root      4991  1197  0 06:03 ?        00:00:01 smbd -D
root      4992  1197  0 06:08 ?        00:00:01 smbd -D
root      4997  1197  0 06:19 ?        00:00:00 smbd -D
root      5006  1197  0 06:37 ?        00:00:01 smbd -D
root      5129  5011  0 07:00 pts/0    00:00:00 grep mbd
[root at FS1 etc]#

My other servers aren't doing this, so I must have done something 
specific that caused this behaviour & can't figure it out.  Any ideas?

To fix the problem, we have cron restart the server once per week - not 
a great solution but "it works".

We're running samba-2.2.3a on Redhat 7.2 or 7.3

TIA