(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 Henson
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
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 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
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