[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#429429: samba: nmbd not always necessary

[Robert Edmonds]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 08:19:43PM -0400, Robert Edmonds wrote:
> > Package: samba
> > Version: 3.0.24-6etch4
> > Severity: wishlist
> 
> > nmbd is not always necessary; for instance in a non-Windows environment
> > with working name resolution.  It would be nice if the samba init script
> > supported only starting the smbd daemon.
> 
> If you have a non-Windows environment, use a better protocol. :)
> 

Such as?  NFS has at least as many downsides as CIFS (for which this
space is too small to enumerate); e.g., samba runs in userspace and
supports "unix extensions" which are only comparable to the kernel-only
NFSv4 daemon.

> I consider this a wontfix.

I would gladly supply a patch if it would be applied.

-- 
Robert Edmonds
edmonds at debian.org
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