Talk:Managing Services

Thoughts in no particular order:
 * netfs: having this disabled should have no effect on manual mounts of network file systems like NFS and Samba, right?
 * nmbd: What's the story on the specific jobs of nmbd versus smbd? Fedora is the only distro I've seen (other than CentOS) with a distinct nmbd - my Arch server, for example, only has "Samba" in /etc/rc.d (/etc/rc.d/samba), and no mention of smb or nmb whatsoever when starting, restarting, or stopping the daemon. Crookedspoke 16:45, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

I have no idea about the Netfs but I think it might be needed to even mount a remote file system. Not sure though. As for the smbd and nmb check out the  samba information page. that might clear things up for you. It is a long and dry read through. Techmatt 13:11, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * OK. I'll have to look into the netfs thing. For now I suppose we'll assume it's needed - I am pretty sure that the service just titled "nfs" is related only to nfs server. I think you definitely need nfslock to mount remote NFS shares (unless you're connecting to an older NFS share?), but I do have netfs on all the time anyway. I was just wondering if maybe netfs is related to automounting networked file systems rather than explicit manual mounts, but it seems like it's needed, period.
 * As to nmbd, I guess this quote from that page answers my question: "The other two CIFS pieces, name resolution and browsing, are handled by nmbd. These two services basically involve the management and distribution of lists of NetBIOS names." Would make sense that a daemon starting with n relateds to NetBIOS naming! :p Thanks for the link. I do know one thing: when running a Samba server, I just run both (if there are distinct ones). When changing configurations, restarting just smbd seems to be sufficient for propagating config changes. And, finally, regarding "other distros" - on my Arch box (which uses a Debian-like init structure as far as I can tell), I launch/stop/restart Samba using /etc/rc.d/samba  - catting out this script, it looks like it actually sends calls to nmbd and smbd. Crookedspoke 13:38, 8 September 2008 (UTC)