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samba package

  1. Bug #462169
  2. Comment #79

Comment 79 for bug 462169

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 462169] Re: nmbd dies on startup when network interfaces are not up yet

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:28:45PM -0000, Nicolas M wrote:
> => So my question here: why having a different startup condition for
> smbd and nmbd, as both daemons need to be running for samba to operate ?

Because:

 - nmbd is only needed for operations in some environments, so smbd should
   not block on nmbd being ready before starting
 - nmbd *must* wait for a broadcast-capable network interface to come up
   before it's started, otherwise it will fail - so it can't use the same
   start condition smbd currently does.

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