Starting samba in console

Forum: Networking
Topic: Starting samba in console
started by: mulanee

Posted by mulanee on April 17 2006,18:06

Hi there,

Who can give me the command line in console to start samba server ?

Posted by dtf on April 17 2006,19:28

smbd start &
nmbd start &

Posted by mulanee on April 23 2006,17:23

Thank you.
What the & means?

Posted by cbagger01 on April 24 2006,05:05

It means, "Start this program and run it in the background"

Normally, the command prompt and shell script interpreter will continue to execute a command until it is finished running and ends. It then moves on to the next command in the list.

So when you add the "&" sign at the end, it starts up smbd and then immediately moves on and start up nmbd and then moves on again.

Posted by mikshaw on April 24 2006,13:24

Although in the case of daemons, it's usually not necessary since most will run in the background by default =o)