On Monday 26 January 2009 07:40:18 pm Donald D Henson wrote:
(Earth-svr:/home/dhenson/Desktop # uname -a Linux Earth-svr 2.6.27.7-9-pae #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux)
Yes, I'm the guy who asked for Samba help before and I'm still struggling with it. I've googled the web and found several howtos and have attempted to follow their instructions. I installed Swat and played around with that. Finally, I discovered GAdmin-Samba. Not much help there either. I decided to try yet another restart, forgot the 're', and got the following responses. This looks like a clue but I can't figure out what it's trying to tell me. Would someone have a look at the exchanges below and tell me if it really is a clue or am I still clueless. (Sorry. I couldn't resist.) Aany help appreciated.
Earth-svr:/home/dhenson/Desktop # service smb start Starting Samba SMB daemon - Warning: /var/run/samba/smbd.pid exists. done Earth-svr:/home/dhenson/Desktop # service smb restart Shutting down Samba SMB daemon Warning: daemon not running. done Starting Samba SMB daemon - Warning: /var/run/samba/smbd.pid exists. done Earth-svr:/home/dhenson/Desktop #
Looks like the smbd.pid exists in /var/run/samba/ but the deamon isn't running. What's 'service smdb status' tell you? Or, how about 'ps -ef |grep smbd' ? I'm guessing you could remove the .pid file and try starting samba. Tim