Comment 16 for bug 791944

I got this:

carlos@kropotkin:datos_econta$ sudo /usr/sbin/nmbd -d 3 -F -S
[sudo] password for carlos:
nmbd version 3.5.8 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2010
lp_load_ex: refreshing parameters
Initialising global parameters
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file "/etc/samba/smb.conf"
Processing section "[global]"
Registered MSG_REQ_POOL_USAGE
Registered MSG_REQ_DMALLOC_MARK and LOG_CHANGED
lp_load_ex: refreshing parameters
Initialising global parameters
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file "/etc/samba/smb.conf"
Processing section "[global]"
services not loaded
standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
Becoming a daemon.

Then nothing else (the process does not return control to the console). However,

carlos@kropotkin:datos_econta$ ps -ef | egrep nmbd
root 6609 5986 0 17:48 pts/1 00:00:00 sudo /usr/sbin/nmbd -d 3 -F -S
root 6612 6609 0 17:48 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -d 3 -F -S
carlos 6722 6660 0 17:52 pts/3 00:00:00 egrep nmbd

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