Disable samba service [SOLVED]

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Disable samba service [SOLVED]

Post by kwirk »

How do I disable smbd service?

I tried disabling 'Personal File Sharing' from 'Startup Applications' from the 'Control Panel', but after reboot, the service is still listening on ipv6 ports 139/445.
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Re: Disable samba service

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'Personal File Sharing' is not samba. It's a baby apache file server that uses avahi to broadcasts it's one available share.

This will stop the samba service if it's running:

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sudo service smbd stop
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Re: Disable samba service

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altair4 wrote:'Personal File Sharing' is not samba. It's a baby apache file server that uses avahi to broadcasts it's one available share.

This will stop the samba service if it's running:

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sudo service smbd stop

Thanks. How do I go about disabling the service so it wont restart on reboot?
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chronics

Re: Disable samba service

Post by chronics »

Remove its execute permission in /etc/init.d
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Re: Disable samba service

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Thanks. How do I go about disabling the service so it wont restart on reboot?
I should have realized that was your intended goal from your post. Sorry about that.
Remove its execute permission in /etc/init.d
I was going to suggest commenting out the "start on" line in /etc/init/smbd.conf but removing the execute bit is brilliant.
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Re: Disable samba service

Post by kwirk »

altair4 wrote:
Thanks. How do I go about disabling the service so it wont restart on reboot?
I should have realized that was your intended goal from your post. Sorry about that.
Remove its execute permission in /etc/init.d
I was going to suggest commenting out the "start on" line in /etc/init/smbd.conf but removing the execute bit is brilliant.

I decided to comment out the "start on" line in '/etc/init/smbd.conf' which worked a treat. I may want to start samba service on a adhoc basis, so I feel removing the execute bit would be more hassle in the long run.

Thanks for all the help. Cheers!
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