David C. Rankin wrote:
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 #
Don,
Looks like your server shut down hard and let the pid files in place. Like time said, check for a running smbd process (you probably won't find it). If you do kill it with kill pid. If you don't, just
rm /var/run/samba/smbd.pid
and restart.
I've updated my samba page a bit if that's any help to you:
http://www.3111skyline.com/linux/openSuSE-server.php#samba
Good luck
Son of a gun. You called it right out of the box. I applied your recommended solution and everything seems to have fallen into place. Thanks and thanks also for the pointer to your website: http://www.3111skyline.com/linux/openSuSE-server.php#samba I see a couple of items that interest me. -- Don Henson