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

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 12:55 -0400, Robert Edmonds wrote:
> 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.

As a team, we support the use of Samba as an NFS replacement.  This is
an explicit design goal of the CIFS unix extensions. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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