At Tue, 25 May 2010 15:11:45 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Just a follow up note: We've got the same problem again on another fresh install. Totally different hardware - so the hardware hypothesis bites the dust. Since other people aren't seeing this, the remaining suspect is our configuration files. We're using an smbpasswd backed, and in both these cases moved configuration files over from working Redhat systems for this.
Wondering aloud: where the smbpasswd *data* files copied? If so how, exactly? And from what version of samba were the smbpasswd *data* created with? And are the permissions of the smbpasswd *data* what they should be? Just guessing, but if there is some broken about the smbpassword database files, this *could* explain some level of problem, although I would more like suspect that smbd with just never run, rather that start and die under *some* conditions, unless those conditions relate to something like library search paths or something odd.
How that can explain the strange breakage (see the long discussion following the original post for details) is still beyond me. It should break it, or it shouldn't, and when it breaks it smbd should be able to give some message as to why ... but it doesn't.
I wonder if the more recent X version of Samba is likely to work better, or of the breakage here is related to using smbpasswd?
Whit
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 09:21:28AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
We've got a fresh CentOS 5.4 box, and the only glitch so far is that /etc/init.d/smb doesn't start smbd. It claims it does - shows "[ok]" - but only nmbd ends up running. Even setting a higher debugging level in the smbd flags, nothing logs or shows on the console as to why smbd is immediatly quitting.
To make it stranger, doing this works fine:
. /etc/init.d/functions daemon smbd -D
That's the core of how the /etc/init.d/smb file is set up to start it. Except from there it's not working - despite the reported "[ok]".
Anyone seen this, or have advice on how to debug it?
Thanks, Whit
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos