[Samba] ps -ef | grep mbd reports only mbd

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon Mar 4 08:44:02 GMT 2002


On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Robert Hartung* wrote:

> Again,
>   Following Carter's book, and after starting smbd and nmbd with " smbd -D ; 
> nmbd -D" I do a "ps -ef | grep mbd".  Only nmbd is report with it's PID.  smbd 
> never is reported.  Jerry's book [2nd ed.] states that both should show up with 
> their respective PIDs.
>   I have searched through over one hundred pages of documentation and cannot 
> find the answer as to "why?" this is occuring.  Where else can I look for the 
> answer other than the distributed man pages?

Bob,

Are you running 2.2.3a?  Try running

	smbd -i -d 10

from the command line and see what smbd spews to stdout.
It should help.  Probably can't open a file or required
tdb.






cheers, jerry
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