recently had a motherboard failure on a 11.4 machine that does some samba service on the local network. After new items were installed the machine booted and the usual modifications to setup the different hardware were done, machine ran normally, but…
the new network adapter was given eth1… and in top there were two instances of smbd/nmbd. My first thought was to eliminate the old extra entry for eth0 in NetworkDevices/Interface… which i did and rebooted, but the twin sambas are still there.
Before dig farther, i thought maybe someone that had a similar experience might steer me to the proper setting to change.
On 12/13/2011 12:26 AM, j xavier wrote:
>
> recently had a motherboard failure on a 11.4 machine that does some
> samba service on the local network. After new items were installed the
> machine booted and the usual modifications to setup the different
> hardware were done, machine ran normally, but…
>
> the new network adapter was given eth1… and in top there were two
> instances of smbd/nmbd. My first thought was to eliminate the old extra
> entry for eth0 in NetworkDevices/Interface… which i did and rebooted,
> but the twin sambas are still there.
>
> Before dig farther, i thought maybe someone that had a similar
> experience might steer me to the proper setting to change.
>
> thanks in advance
>
>
j xavier;
Multiple copies of smbd are not uncommon. Each connection will spawn a new copy of smbd.
What do you see with the process tree?
ps -ejH | grep [s,n]mbd
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P.V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you” Red Green
On 12/13/2011 3:16 AM, j xavier wrote:
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> nothing very helpful
>
> ps -ejH | grep [s,n]mbd
> 2354 2354 2354 ? 00:00:04 nmbd
> 2355 2354 2354 ? 00:00:00 nmbd
> 2830 2830 2830 ? 00:00:00 smbd
> 2834 2830 2830 ? 00:00:00 smbd
>
> i can’t ever remember seeing more than one instance after booting…
> i’ll re-do the whole thing and see what happens.
>
> appreciate the prompt reply
>
>
j xavier;
Notice that one nmbd and smbd are just child processes. All of my servers show at least
two smbd’s even after a fresh boot. Ordinarily there is only one nmbd running. However,
unless nmbd starts spawning promiscuously, I wouldn’t worry.
P.V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you” Red Green
