Re: [TCLUG:21512] Samba died

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

Tim,

You might try this if you know samba is actually running.x

http://us4.samba.org/samba/ftp/tcpdump-smb/

Or you might nmap ports 137-139 on it to see if the are active.

HTH,

Troy


Timothy Wilson wrote:
> 
> Hey everyone,
> 
> Something very strange happened the other day to my Debian server.
> 
> I walked back to my desk after class and discovered that my screensaver
> wouldn't clear. It turns out that the dept. file server was turned off. :-(
> I have no idea why. Perhaps someone pushed the button (it sits back in one
> of our stockrooms). Perhaps some weird hardware or power failure.
> 
> I rebooted the machine and everything seemed fine. But now samba doesn't
> work. My colleagues who use Win95 can't access their directories on the
> server. I use NFS and I'm not having any trouble at all.
> 
> I originally had samba running from inetd, but I reconfigured it to run as a
> daemon. It seems like samba just isn't answering requests. Any ideas about
> how I can diagnose this problem? I'm stumped.
> 
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