samba - Sep 2000 - Samba 2.0.7 Sol 251: nmbd and smbd - start/stop independently?

Hi

Does anyone know of problems with starting/stopping nmbd and smbd
independently of each other?

I need to stop smbd, to ensure that users are not accessing shares,
while I do a
backup of the file system, but I need to continue running nmbd to
provide WINS services.


Are there any problems with stopping smbd and then starting it after the
backup while
allowing nmbd to run uninterrupted? 

Dennis

dennis wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Does anyone know of problems with starting/stopping nmbd and smbd
> independently of each other?
> 
> I need to stop smbd, to ensure that users are not accessing shares,
> while I do a
> backup of the file system, but I need to continue running nmbd to
> provide WINS services.
> 
> Are there any problems with stopping smbd and then 
> starting it after the backup while allowing nmbd to 
> run uninterrupted?

Should be fine.




Cheers, jerry
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dennis said:
> Does anyone know of problems with starting/stopping nmbd and smbd
> independently of each other?
> 
> I need to stop smbd, to ensure that users are not accessing shares,
> while I do a backup of the file system, but I need to continue running
> nmbd to provide WINS services. 
I have done this (separate start & stop scripts) and have done what you ask
about - stop & start smbd independantly of nmbd without ill effect.
In my case to put in different version of smbd.  If you are relatively
prompt the clients will reconnect and people will notice little effect
as I imaging NT clients are used to the server going down :-)
 
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