Re: [TCLUG:8266] SMB mounting: a Campus view

[Michael Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

> So after I got the phone call (and before I took my machine in the next
> day), I purged out (yay dpkg) the daemon/server portions of Samba (smbd,
> nmbd) and just left samba-doc, samba-common, smbmount, and smbclient in
> place.
> 
> So my main question is this: Is there anything left that could screw with
> NT's head and cause similar problems, or am I safe to mount my home
> directory again?

Well, I suppose the confusing thing here is that Samba is basically the server
side of things (speaking in terms of the programs, that would be smbd -- nmbd is
also used, but I think that's basically just DNS-type of thing for SMB
networking).  The things you want to use are the associated utilities,
specifically smbmount and smbclient (plus a few others, probably).  You don't
need samba itself to mount the network directory -- you only need samba if you
want to serve the files on your machine using the SMB protocol..

You didn't have to go and remove smbd and nmbd from your system, they just had
to be disabled (although removing them will definitely disable them ;-)  If you
have linuxconf, just look around for the "Control Service Activity" screen, and
just set smb to disable (it might be called 'samba' or 'smb', I suppose it
depends on the distribution, etc.)  Otherwise, look for a SysVInit service
editor, or just muck around in the /etc/rc.d/rc?.d directories and remove the
appropriate stuff..

Anyway, to get back to the short answer -- yes, you can mount your home
directory safely again (unless they decided to not let you do that anymore or
something...)
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