There is a samba rpm update in under mandrake-devel/unsupported on the ftp mirrors. You may want to get the update before you do a lot more debugging. Tom Berkley Buchan Milne wrote: > Hi, > > I have 3 linux boxes (2 running LM7.1, 1 running LM 7.2). The 7.2 box I > reinstalled over the weekend from redhat 6.2. > > All machines run samba, however 2 of the 3 (including the reinstalled > machine which is our printserver) are getting the following error very > often: > > Can't create or use IPC area. Error was File exists > ERROR: Failed to initialise share modes > Can't initialise shared memory - exiting > > Both of the boxes that are giving problems are pretty standard installs, > with virtually nothing compiled from source, both running the mandrake > secure kernels. The box that is running fine (which happens to be our > Primary Domain Corntroller - so it's a good thing we don't get this > error here) is running on a kernel I compiled from vanilla source > patched for ReiserFS, ide (ata66) and openwall security. > > All machines are currently running Mandrake packages of samba 2.0.7. > > So it appears that there may be a problem with the (secure only?) > mandrake kernels. Here is another post which indicates a problem with > Mandrake :http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=97212115732375&w=2 > > I have just rebooted the machine with the non-secure kernel, and samba > seems to be running ok. > (note to those following the cd-writing problem, this does not fix it > ... looks like I will be compiling a new kernel for this box anyway) > > So is there a way to run a secure samba box with Mandrake ?? (or am I > going to be compiling my own kernels for the other 2 boxes). > > Buchan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
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