On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 09:55 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 10 February 2008 22:25, Craig White wrote:
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 22:04 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
I'm having a lot of problems with nmbd quitting while I'm working. 'service smb status' shows samba running, but 'nmbd dead but pid file exists'. Log files show lines like
nmbd/nmbd.c:reload_interfaces(229) reload_interfaces: No subnets to listen to. Shutting down...
Googling hasn't come up with anything helpful. Has anyone any idea what is happening and what I can do about it?
in /etc/samba/smb.conf
what do you have for settings?
bind interfaces only = ?
Line doesn't exist
hosts allow = ?
hosts allow = 127. 192.168.0.
wins support = ? wins server = ?
Neither exist, other than in original commented lines
(note the last 2 are mutually exclusive and both should not be set)
---- I don't know the exact issues that would cause an error message of 'no subnets to listen to' but generally, it is expected that if your 192.168.0 network, that would be a class 'C' network (255.255.255.0 subnet mask) and thus a broadcast address of 192.168.0.255 would be assumed for wins traffic.
Perhaps you have some other subnet mask in use (255.255.254.0) or whatever, but if you are not running a wins server on your lan and this samba server is pretty much the master server, you could easily just add...
wins support = yes
which would probably solve the error you are getting. This is simply a guess.
Craig