[CentOS] nmbd dead but pid file exists

Mon Feb 11 09:55:14 UTC 2008
Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>

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)
>
Anne