samba (Re: Strange slow down of my system

[Philippe Landau]

Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I killed famd and now everything is working fine
> again. However I don't see samba in the process list. Could it be so
> because it relies on famd and now that I've killed famd it's been
> killed also?
do you see smbd ?

>>you can end or kill processes in system monitor, yes.
>>just right-click on them and choose.
> Sorry for my miswording. I meant can I start/stop a daemon graphically
> in Ubuntu? Samba is running as a daemon in the background.
http://www.google.com/linux?q=samba+start%2Fstop
for example
Quick HOWTO: Windows, Linux And Samba
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-hn/samba.htm
> You can start/stop/restart Samba after boot time using the smb initialization script as in the examples below:
> [root at bigboy tmp]# service smb start
> [root at bigboy tmp]# service smb stop
> [root at bigboy tmp]# service smb restart

if you continue like this you are going to teach me samba :-)

kind regards     philippe