On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:58:07AM -0400, Ryan Manikowski wrote: > As your config appears to be clean and free of errors that would prevent > smbd from starting have you... > > ...tried starting smbd from the command line NOT using the init scripts? > > Make sure nmbd is started first: nmbd -D > > Try using the -i and -F flag to start smbd: > > e.g. smbd -iF Thanks Ryan. I'll try that when the mount is next free. Note that per my initial report it _does_ work perfectly to start it with: . /etc/init.d/functions daemon smbd -D So I'm not sure I'll be able to get it to fail from the command line. The question for getting it to work from the init.d script is what's different? Would there be a dependency in the environment (say, something about the initial path) that could cause the problem? It sources /etc/sysconfig/samba, which is the default: # Options to smbd SMBDOPTIONS="-D" # Options to nmbd NMBDOPTIONS="-D" # Options for winbindd WINBINDOPTIONS="" I've tried it with SMBDOPTIONS="-D -d 3" and SMBDOPTIONS="-D -d 3 -l /var/log" but those fail too, including doing no loging for smbd It also sources /etc/sysconfig/network, but that has NETWORKING=yes which appears to be all it's checking for there. And it succeeds with touching /var/lock/subsys/smb, which means its return values for both smbd and nmbd were 0. Everything in the start sequence should work, indicates it's working, but then smbd isn't there. Yet starting by hand as above, it is. Whit