On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:58:10PM -0500, spencer wrote: > I have been battling with the samba server the last two days. It was > working just fine and then began to fall apart slowly but surely. From a > windows box on logon it would tell you no domain server was available > yadda yadda, but it would still give you access to the smb shares. Then > it decided to just say no domain server available or you don't have access > to the server. So I fiddle and get it somewhat working. I can view the smb > shares from a linux with no problem. smbmount no problem. Then after > making (I think) no changes the daemon will not stay running. > When I do > /etc/rc.d/init/smb restart > it fails on shutting down and gives ok for starting up. > /etc/rc.d/init smb status reveals > smbd stopped > nmbd stopped > So, I decided I didn't like the current system configuration and reload > RH7.1. Upon reload the daemons run fine. Change the /etc/samba/smb.conf > file and smbadduser and smbpasswd and the thing breaks again. > I added to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file > /usr/sbin/smbd -D > /usr/sbin/nmbd -D > and rebooted. > Same scenario. Is it just Friday the 13th or just the broken smb stack? I'm guessing you probably found a bug. Have you tried running an strace on it? gdb is also your friend. Also, I'd imagine that the Samba team has a bugtracking system somewhere. Maybe it's a known issue... Gabe -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------