Samba

[Gregory J. Neumann]

You can always type "nmbd -D" in a root console if "smbd" is still running.  This 
often works for me, but I've never had Samba mysteriously kill nmbd processes.  
Usually it involves an ugly crash (are there any other kind?) of one of the 
windoze clients.  Also, I'm just using Samba to provide access to the Linux 
server.

BTW, why not just go to ftp.samba.org and get 2.2.4?  Just out today!  Be aware 
that Red Hat (maybe Mandrake, too?) puts Samba in different directories than the 
default source.  There's instructions on how to handle it in the docs and on the 
website.  2.2.x did have some problems, and 2.2.3a was really the one you needed, 
but now that 2.2.4 is out, I'd just go to that.   

Just stirring things up!
-Greg

> I am running Samba server dual boot with windoze 2000 with Redhat 7.1 now because for the 5th time my Redhat 7.2 keeps crashing. I think I have a bad distro. Every once in awhile my nmbd daemon stops running. How can I restart it? When I use the command /etc/init.d/smb both say ok but when I 
look in SWAT its not running. The only one running is smbd daemon. Can anyone explain what I am doing wrong . I do test parm everything is fine I restart xinet.d its fine.