Samba: from inetd vs. daemon
Hello all,
the current maintainers for the samba and sambades packages are very busy
these days and are thinking about giving away these packages. If no
ones objects, I will take over maintenance of them.
I'd like to do this because I use Samba heavyly down here and I am building
my own Debian packages anyways to keep up with the fast development from
the Samba team.
I'd like to get feedback from other Debian developers regarding
what's the best way to run Samba: from inetd (as it currently is) or as
a daemon.
In my humble opinion, a file/printer server must be _fast_. Running
Samba as a daemon will be a little bit faster than running it from
inetd. Also, at least some of the members of the Samba team think it's
better to run Samba as daemons.
One point that makes running Samba from inetd favorable is security:
the tcp wrapper can be used to control access to the server. However,
as someone said in debian-private, access control can be done from
within Samba by using the "allow hosts" directive in smb.conf.
As you can see, I am biased towards running Samba as daemons and not
from inetd.
What y'all think?
E.-
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Eloy A. Paris
Information Technology Department
Rockwell Automation de Venezuela
Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645
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