[ILUG] nmbd

[bobb at redbrick.dcu.ie]

Dermot Gorman hath declared on Tuesday the 05 day of December 2000  :-:
> I keep getting this prob on boot... /var/log/messages shows ...
> 
> Dec  5 18:10:12 p133 smb: smbd startup succeeded
> Dec  5 18:10:12 p133 smb: nmbd startup succeeded

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Are you starting samba as a standalone service from /etc/rc.d/rcX.d ?
If so then inetd would be having problems binding to that port.

Else you could try upping the debuging levels of nmbd and inetd.
inetd -d
nmbd -d 3

(can go up to level 10, but thats supposed to spurt a load of krud.)

> Dec  5 18:10:13 p133 inetd[478]: /usr/sbin/nmbd (pid 726): exit status 1
> Dec  5 18:10:13 p133 inetd[478]: /usr/sbin/nmbd (pid 744): exit status 1
> Dec  5 18:10:13 p133 inetd[478]: /usr/sbin/nmbd (pid 746): exit status 1
> Dec  5 18:10:13 p133 inetd[478]: /usr/sbin/nmbd (pid 748): exit status 1
> .... <snip>
> Dec  5 18:10:14 p133 inetd[478]: /usr/sbin/nmbd (pid 806): exit status 1
> Dec  5 18:10:15 p133 inetd[478]: netbios-ns/udp server failing (looping or 
> being flooded), service terminated for 10 min 
> 
> Any ideas as to the prob?
 

-- 
Robert "bobb" Crosbie.
System Administrator, Internet Ireland.