Anton, I haven't received your answer in my mailbox, so I am copy-pasting it from the web-site: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Istvan Gabor said the following on 08/03/2013 06:12 PM: nmbd demon does not start when my openSUSE 12.2 system is booted. smbd demon starts normally. This is openSUSE 12.2 with up to date kernel and samba packages, using systemd init. # ps -e|grep -i smb 3082 ? 00:00:00 smbd 3230 ? 00:00:00 smbd lnx:~ # ps -e|grep -i nmb lnx:~ # How can I fix this? If you are using systemd then the daemons start via .service descriptions. Grep around to see what the one that starts smbd contains and see if there is one that isn't enables for nmbd and winbindd. Try starting the manually as described in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=147305 If that works then enable them (as described in many other threads here), but do check dependencies (and required files, libraries, directories etc) and the order they should come up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately it did not help. 1. It took a long time until I found out that the service names in openSUSE are: smb.service and nmb.service, instead of smbd.service and nmbd.service as mentioned at the site you linked. 2. I could not find any *.service file containing strings 'smb' or 'nmb' on my whole system. (Starting search in the / directory.) 3. These are the results of grep and systemctl status commands: # ps -e|grep -i smb 2893 ? 00:00:00 smbd 2946 ? 00:00:00 smbd # # # ps -e|grep -i nmb # # # systemctl status smb.service smb.service - LSB: Samba SMB/CIFS file and print server Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/smb) Active: active (running) since Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:14:41 +0200; 3min 2s ago Process: 2856 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/smb start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/smb.service ├ 2893 /usr/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf └ 2946 /usr/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf Aug 05 14:14:41 lnx smb[2856]: Starting Samba SMB daemon ..done # # # systemctl status nmb.service nmb.service - LSB: Samba NetBIOS naming service over IP Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/nmb) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:14:41 +0200; 3min 7s ago Process: 2814 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/nmb start (code=exited, status=7/NOTRUNNING) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/nmb.service Aug 05 14:14:41 lnx nmb[2814]: Starting Samba NMB daemon ..failed # # 4. I can start smbd manually: # systemctl start nmb.service # # systemctl status nmb.service nmb.service - LSB: Samba NetBIOS naming service over IP Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/nmb) Active: active (running) since Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:19:58 +0200; 18s ago Process: 4625 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/nmb start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/nmb.service └ 4634 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf Aug 05 15:19:58 lnx nmb[4625]: Starting Samba NMB daemon - Warning: /var/run/samba/nmbd.pid exists. ..done # 5. This is a new openSUSE 12.2 installation without any hacking. All packages are installed by YaST and samba was set up and configured by YaST as well. Should not it work out of the box? Any further help, possibly specific, is appreciated. Thanks! Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org