samba start

[piti]

i have problem with starting samba

while booting i receive:
Starting SMB Services OK
Starting NMB Services OK

and the daemons aren't running

when started manualy everything is ok
what am i doing wrong?

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

I'd imagine its something to do with the order in which your smb/nmb services are starting. Perhaps they are trying to start before the network interfaces are active or suchlike, i.e at too low a runlevel. Try setting them such that they only start at runlevel 3 (console multi-user on redhat) and above ...

/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 smb on
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 nmb on

If you're <not> running Redhat, find out the correct runlevels for your distribution and do something similar. For example, with Suse the equivalent runlevels to redhat's 3 (Multi-user console) & 5 (X-Gui) are 2 & 3. With Suse you'd use 'rctab -l' to list runlevels and 'rctab -e' to edit. You may also be able to do it with Yast/Yast2 but I'm not too sure..

Rgds

Rgds

 

[piti]

well i did it already

i added a symlink to smb into my rc3.d directory (according to

http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/howtos/SMB/SMB-HOWTO-4.html)and

it worked
btw:
the daemons were &quot;started&quot; after initializing any network interfaces
and i think in runlevel 3 as the messages about started services appeared after message &quot;entering runlevel 3&quot; or something similar to that

thanx anyway

 

[panman]

I had the same problem! Followed advice to look in the samba log files
/var/log/samba/log.smb (and log.nmb)
There was &quot;can't find host qwert.domain&quot; I changed the host name in /etc/host file to qwert.domain and away it went!

&quot;Log files are your friend&quot;!