At Tue, 25 May 2010 15:11:45 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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 at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk