samba - May 2001 - starting samba via daemon or inet

Hello,

I have a question about starting samba via inet or daemons. Is it a
religious case or is it better or saver or whatever to start it with smbd -D
and nmbd -D.
I prefer starting via inet , but.....,
Please tell me Your ultimate advices.

Kind regards		Martin Schreiber

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Schreiber Martin wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a question about starting samba via inet or daemons. Is it a
> religious case or is it better or saver or whatever to start it with smbd
-D
> and nmbd -D.
> I prefer starting via inet , but.....,
> Please tell me Your ultimate advices.
It's very simple.
If you are running Samba contitinually with many users, you're almost
guaranteed to do better with smbd -D
The only time running from inetd would be preferred is if you rarely use
Samba on this server and you want to free up RAM for other applications
(ex: a busy Intranet server that uses a Samba connection about once a
week to update the web pages.

However, with the way SMB connections work, I doubt you'd seem much
performance degradation running from inetd.

-Bill