Shutting down SMB?

unixfreak · 08-23-2004, 01:28 AM

I want to shutdown SMB services but it says Failed to shutdown smb when I click on the Stop button under Services in MCC.

I will not use Samba. My machine is just a standalone. Is there way to shutdown this so it wont have any dangerous ports opened?

Charalambos · 08-23-2004, 01:57 AM

Then why not just uninstall the samba daemon?

unixfreak · 08-23-2004, 10:49 AM

How do I do that??? Please explain. Im kinda new at this.

Mathieu · 08-23-2004, 11:55 AM

To shutdown the Samba service, you will have to be root.
Open a console (Terminal) window and, at the command line, type the following:

Code:

su -
service smb stop
service nmb stop
chkconfig --level 35 smb off
chkconfig --level 35 nmb off

To un-install Samba, at the command line, login as root (by using the su command)

Code:

rpm -qa | grep -i samba

This will output a list of Samba packages, copy the names and append them to the following command:

Code:

rpm -e packages

For example:

Code:

rpm -e samba-2.2.8a-139