[Gllug] nmbd shutdown

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 09:25:08AM +0100, Bob wrote:
> Can you help.  Is there a way to keep nmbd live when there is no connection to 
> eth0.
[snip]
> cable (cable is disconnected for maintenance or security issues).  We never 
> had this problem, that we are aware of before ver 10.

Are smbd and nmbd running in daemon mode or are they being called by
inetd/xinetd?

> 
> OS is Mandrake Linux Official 10 with Samba 3.0.2.
> 
> We have found the service stops about 2-3 mins after we disconnect the network 

What do the logs say?  Look for a log file called something like
log.nmbd in /var/log or /var/log/samba.

> On another issue we liked the facility in Redhat 8 (setup as a file server) 
> where users could have access via Samba to files on the server - but were 
> prevented from logging on locally by changing the shell to nologon.  We have 
> been unable to achieve this with Mandrake.  Any suggestions.

Try setting a user's logon shell to /bin/false.  See if that works.

-- 
Bruce

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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