The three answers to this message I saw were not as helpful as I think they
could have been. I'd rather teach you to fish, than throw you some fluff
answer, like "Delete some lines out of your inetd.conf".
In particular, the "nmbd" is a netbios nameserver. It's part of a package
called "Samba", and is used to deal with drives and printers being shared
by the Windows for Workgroups, Win95, and Windows NT operating systems. This
package normally is installed by root, so you should be aware of it. First
fishing tip: Read the manual page. Do a "man nmbd".
Specifically what we should know about this error message is that the file
"/usr/sbin/nmbd" does exist, but it's exiting with a non-zero result. This
means "nmbd" can't run for some reason. Fishing tip number two: Try running
it from the command line and see if it prints any debug output. Chances are,
it will display some sort of error message which will tell you what the real
problem is. My guess is that you don't have support for SMB built into your
kernel, or some other portion of the Samba package is not doing its job.
If you hadn't intended to run the samba package, then follow the advice of
the others who posted answers: Remove all references to /usr/sbin/nmbd from
your /etc/inetd.conf file.
Last fishing tip: Install an IRC client, and attach to EFNet. Join the #linux
channel, and ask questions there. There is a lot of help available there, but one
caveat: They expect you to have read everything before asking questions.
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