[Samba] Samba is having babies

[Giulio Orsero]

On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 06:51:36 -0500, John Schmerold <john at katy.com> wrote:

>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

This is normal behavior: you get 1 smbd + 1 smbd for each client connection.
I think 2 nmbd's means the server is a wins server.

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