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

[Steve Langasek]

tags 429429 pending
thanks

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:19:22AM -0400, Robert Edmonds wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > As a team, we support the use of Samba as an NFS replacement.  This is
> > an explicit design goal of the CIFS unix extensions. 

> So, in a unix-only environment, is it a perfectly acceptable use case to
> run without nmbd if browsing is not required and name resolution is
> provided through other means?  What has the potential to break if nmbd
> is not running?

"Unix-only environment" does not imply "does not need workgroup browsing or
NT4 domain support", neither of which work without nmbd.

There are cases where nmbd is not needed, yes; but I don't believe it's
appropriate to make this a toggle via /etc/default/samba.

I've just committed a change to the Debian samba init script in svn that
will honor 'disable netbios' if set in smb.conf, and not start nmbd in that
case.

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