Re: [TCLUG:8657] SAMBA problems

[Troy Johnson <john1536@tc.umn.edu>]

Carl,

What does your smb.conf look like (please sanitize it if you are
connected to the internet)? Having that information will go a long way
toward helping you out.

Isn't SID an NT domain security thing? If you don't need domain logons
and things like that, don't use them. Some things are only for NT
clients and I haven't had the greatest luck with some of them (meaning:
turning them off made things work).

Good luck,

Troy


Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> 
>         I'm trying to get SAMBA configured on our new fileserver; and it
> refuses to start.
>         /var/log/samba/log.smb tells me:
>  [1999/09/24 14:18:26, 1] smbd/server.c:main(614)
>   smbd version 2.0.3 started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
> [1999/09/24 14:18:26, 0] lib/util_sid.c:string_to_sid(68)
>   string_to_sid: Sid  does not start with 'S-'.
> [1999/09/24 14:18:26, 0] passdb/passdb.c:read_sid_from_file(810)
>   unable to generate machine SID.
> [1999/09/24 14:18:26, 0] passdb/passdb.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid(869)
>   unable to read file /etc/MACHINE.SID. Error was No such file or directory
> [1999/09/24 14:18:26, 0] smbd/server.c:main(644)
>   ERROR: Samba cannot create a SAM SID.
> 
> anyone know what's going wrong here?
> I'd like to get this solved ASAP. our programmer is here for some software
> upgrades; and he's something of a Linux skeptic. this will really be useful
> for some tests of ours. :)
> 
> Carl Soderstrom
> System Administrator    307 Brighton Ave.
> Minnesota DHIA          Buffalo, MN
> carls@agritech.com      (612) 682-1091
> 
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