On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 02:14:14AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
One thing that has always been a pain with samba is that suse splits the init scripts for nmbd and smbd into separate scripts.
No, as this is a feature and not a bug. The separation of nmbd and smbd allows the user to en- or disable the nmb and smb services independently. Is this this needed in real world environments? Yes, it is needed. Or would you even start winbind with the same init script? Hey, let us re introduce /etc/rc.config with SAMBA_NMBD_START={yes,no,maybe,not_on_david_r_systems,not_on_monday} Something to laught needed at this early morning time? Check the package change log - maybe not the one from your the RPM db of your system but the one from the network:samba:STABLE repo samba.changes file in the openSUSE Build Service - and search for a change log hunk from Mon Sep 23 23:39:11 CEST 2002 ... - drop rcsamba More than seven years ago. A flash back from the good old times. :) IIRC it was Rudi who convinced or better enforced the correction. One service has to be controled by one init script. See this even as one more KISS rule.
Now this isn't a show-stopper by any stretch, but is there any chance we could get an rcsamba in 11.2 that would work on both? Some quick hack like the one I use would work fine:
No quick hack is needed. If YOU need this store it in ~/bin/ and be happy. Anyone else: Nothing to see here folks ... just keep moving please ... ;) Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany