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mulanee

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Posted: April 17 2006,18:06

Hi there,

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

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Emmanuel

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Posted: April 17 2006,19:28

smbd start &
nmbd start &

mulanee

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Posted: April 23 2006,17:23

Thank you.
What the & means?

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Emmanuel

cbagger01

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Posted: 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.

mikshaw

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Posted: 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)

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