nmbd, netbios-ns/udp ???

[Martin Zuber]

In my opinion nmbd is the Netbios Name Daemon ("WINS-Lookup"); you have
probably got samba installed on your machine and it crashes for some reason.

Martin Zuber

"Jeremy Andrews" <jandrews at techcontrol.comNOSPAM> wrote in message
news:8d9vd2$hhb$1 at dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com...
> Hello,
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>   About every ten minutes I see the following set of errors in
> /var/log/messages:
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> Apr 15 10:40:23 noc inetd[406]: /usr/sbin/nmbd: exit status 0xff
> Apr 15 10:40:54 noc last message repeated 31 times
> Apr 15 10:41:01 noc last message repeated 7 times
> Apr 15 10:41:02 noc inetd[406]: netbios-ns/udp server failing (looping),
> service terminated
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>   What is this?  What can I do to fix it?
>
> Thanks,
> -Jeremy
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