[Samba] Expectations: actual vs. published

[Joel Hammer]

Is smbd running?
(ps ax | less)

Joel

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:20:08PM -0600, Robert Hartung* wrote:
> Hi again,
>   I'm hoping this will make it to the list.
> 
>   I'm still puzzled by the behavior of the smb daemon.  Jerry Carter's book and 
> talk at the recent Linux World Expo state that after starting nmbd and smbd 
> with e.g. "smbd -D ; nmbd -D" that a "ps -ef | grep mbd" should return the PIDs 
> of both smbd and nmbd.
> 
>   I have downloaded and installed both a rpm version of samba-2.2.3a and the 
> tar.gz version at different times.  I cannot ever get a PID for smbd no matter 
> if I start it as above or via "/etc/init.d/smb start".
> 
>   I have browsed Carter's book and the 122 pages of the man pages to no avail.  
> There must be an explanation but I don't know where else to look.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob
> 
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