Re: HOWTO: Setup Samba peer-to-peer with Windows
Originally Posted by
Morbius1
In the beginning of time there was the smbd daemon and the nmbd daemon. Some smart folks over at RedHat decided to combine the two into one "service" called "samba" since System Administrators tend to run both in sequence. In Debian it's still that way.
In Ubuntu ( I think because of upstart - not sure ) they went back to the olden days where your run smbd and nmbd separately.
That explanation should help the memory. I will still need to remember to desiccate the word samba of her vowels to the word smb. Linux bash seems to hate vowels. Must have to do with some voweless clicking language in StarTrec.
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