Samba Deamons Going Weird

[Spook]

[dingetje]

[Spook]

[dingetje]

[Spook]

[Spook]

[Lightning]

[Spook]

Hi again - after quite some time I came back to this post.
In fact the problem has not occured for months now - but there must be some reasons why it has occured in the past.

The samba package I'm runing is: samba_2.2.8_nachoman77

About the starting method I'm not sure.
At least there is a start script existing /pkg/rc/rc_samba
But how can I figure out wheter that is working or the other mentioned method inetd ?

By the way - the start section in the rc_samba script is identical to the one dingetje has posted below.

Tia

Spook

[Lightning]

If you are using the default rc_samba as Dingetje posted AND it say's "Starting Samba" at startup then you are running Samba in daemon mode and not as an inted process. But you can also check to see if you have a /etc/inetd.conf file and if that file exists then if it has any references to the smbd and nmbd binaries. If it does then those lines should be commented out with a #

[Spook]

Hi,
I checked my box and there is no /etc/inetd.conf file existing.
Therefore it sees to be clear that samba is started by rc_samba.
I still have the feeling that the problems where caused by Vista accessing the Samba shares - don't know why but since Vista is not accessing the Samba shares anymore no problems occure.
From Windows XP it's no problem to access and transfer files to the Freesco Samba shares.
More than 40 GByte transfered and Samba works like a charme.
Conclusion - Vista sucks. With Windows7 no problems so far

Thanks for hints and help

Spook

[CDFiXER]

I have seen these same issues with using SAMBA and initd. I ended up starting SAMBA without initd. At the time I was using XP clients and Win98SE clients exclusively. Even when I thought it was fixed, anywhere from 5 minutes to 5 days later, initd would start spawning daemons all over the place but once I started SAMBA without initd I never had another problem. At least no problem along those lines.