[CentOS] nmbd dead but pid file exists

Sun Feb 10 22:25:11 UTC 2008
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

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?
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in /etc/samba/smb.conf

what do you have for settings?

bind interfaces only = ?
hosts allow = ?
wins support = ?
wins server = ?

(note the last 2 are mutually exclusive and both should not be set)

Craig