Re: [TCLUG:9768] samba problems

[Karl Morgan <ksm@dogbrain.com>]

Check out

	http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/ntdom_faq/page6.html

Regards

					- Karl

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> I'm trying to get SAMBA working on my new server here, (RH6.1 w/ stock
> 2.2.12-20 kernel, samba 2.0.5a) and it refuses to start for some
> inexplicable reason. with my original configuration, here's what I got in
> /var/log/samba/log.smb:
> 
> [1999/11/04 14:22:20, 1] smbd/server.c:main(628)
>   smbd version 2.0.5a started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
> [1999/11/04 14:22:20, 0] lib/util_sid.c:string_to_sid(262)
>   string_to_sid: Sid ~ does not start with 'S-'.
> [1999/11/04 14:22:20, 0] passdb/passdb.c:read_sid_from_file(812)
>   unable to generate machine SID.
> [1999/11/04 14:22:20, 0] passdb/passdb.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid(873)
>   unable to read file /etc/MACHINE.SID. Error was No such file or directory
> [1999/11/04 14:22:20, 0] smbd/server.c:main(658)
>   ERROR: Samba cannot create a SAM SID.
> 
> so I went to a simpler /etc/smb.conf to see if it made a difference:
> #this is taken from one of the example files in the samba docs
> [global]
>    workgroup = <deleted>
>    guest account = pcguest
>    log file = /usr/local/samba/log.%m
> [homes]
>    comment = Home Directories
>    browseable = no
>    read only = no
>    create mode = 0750
> 
> but it still fails when I try to start it. (gives a [FAILED] error message,
> and doesn't show up in ps ax)
> this is the result in /var/log/samba/log.smb:
> 
> [1999/11/04 15:10:37, 1] smbd/server.c:main(628)
>   smbd version 2.0.5a started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
> 
> even invoking the daemon by hand (/usr/sbin/smbd), it exits immediately;
> dying without an error. 
> 
> OTOH nmbd can be started and stopped just fine; smbmount works reasonably
> well (loses it's connection occasionally, but otherwise works); smbclient
> works too. 
> so the problem seems to be with just smbd.
> 
> does anyone have an idea what's going on here? or should I report a bug to
> the samba team and see what they have to say?
> 
> thanks,
> Carl Soderstrom
> System Administrator	307 Brighton Ave. 
> Minnesota DHIA		Buffalo, MN	
> carls@agritech.com	(612) 682-1091
> 
> 
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