On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:41:22AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > . /etc/init.d/functions > daemon smbd -D It also seems perfectly happy with just "smbd -D" to start it, after system startup. But the two lines above do not work when from /etc/rc.local. Haven't tried the simpler invocation there yet.... The init.d file still fails. So the problem is to debug why it fails - which is probably the same reason why /etc/rc.local won't do it - which eludes me. Whit