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<title>Step 5: Starting the smbd and nmbd</title>
-
- <para>You must choose to start smbd and nmbd either
- as daemons or from <command>inetd</command>. Don't try
+
+ <para>You must choose to start smbd and nmbd either
+ as daemons or from <command>inetd</command>. Don't try
to do both! Either you can put them in <filename>
- inetd.conf</filename> and have them started on demand
+ inetd.conf</filename> and have them started on demand
by <command>inetd</command>, or you can start them as
daemons either from the command line or in <filename>
- /etc/rc.local</filename>. See the man pages for details
- on the command line options. Take particular care to read
- the bit about what user you need to be in order to start
+ /etc/rc.local</filename>. See the man pages for details
+ on the command line options. Take particular care to read
+ the bit about what user you need to be in order to start
Samba. In many cases you must be root.</para>
<para>The main advantage of starting <command>smbd</command>
- and <command>nmbd</command> as a daemon is that they will
- respond slightly more quickly to an initial connection
- request. This is, however, unlikely to be a problem.</para>
+ and <command>nmbd</command> using the recommended daemon method
+ is that they will respond slightly more quickly to an initial connection
+ request.</para>
<sect2>
<title>Step 5a: Starting from inetd.conf</title>
its open. A client may ask for DENY_NONE, DENY_READ, DENY_WRITE
or DENY_ALL. There are also special compatibility modes called
DENY_FCB and DENY_DOS.</para>
-
- <para>You can disable share modes using "share modes = no".
- This may be useful on a heavily loaded server as the share
- modes code is very slow. See also the FAST_SHARE_MODES
- option in the Makefile for a way to do full share modes
- very fast using shared memory (if your OS supports it).</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>