[CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4

Thu May 20 13:21:28 UTC 2010
Whit Blauvelt <whit at transpect.com>

Hi,

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