[CentOS] Centos6 Migration glitch - Samba

Craig White craig.white at ttiltd.com
Mon Aug 8 22:38:06 UTC 2011


On Aug 8, 2011, at 12:46 PM, david wrote:

> Folks
> 
> My experiments have shown that Samba behaves differently in Centos 
> 5.6 and Centos 6 (updated).
> 
> In Centos 5,
>   service smb restart
> restarts both smb and nmb.
> 
> In Centos 6, however, it restarts only smb.
> 
> REMEDY:
>   a) Make sure that both services running
>   b) Issue
>      chkconfig smb on
>      chkconfig nmb on
> 
> IS THIS THE DESIRED BEHAVIOR
> I have no idea if this difference is a "bug" or a "feature", and 
> leave it to others to determine that.
----
feature - been that way in Fedora for many versions now.

Not everyone needs/wants to run nmbd

Craig



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