My samba has been setup in its current configuration for around 9 months and has worked without a problem, over the weekend my windows boxes were unable to access the samba shares. Using SWAT I found that the smbd was not starting. I have tried the following:
Trying to start smbd (as root) from the cli with: smbd start Seems to execute the command and gave no errors but still swat says that smbd has not been started. If I run smbstatus (as root) from the cli I get Titan:/home/mit# smbstatus sessionid.tdb not initialised /var/run/samba/connections.tdb not initialised This is normal if an SMB client has never connected to your server. /var/run/samba/locking.tdb not initialised This is normal if an SMB client has never connected to your server. Titan:/home/mit# If I run testparm from cli I get Titan:/home/mit# testparm Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section "[homes]" Processing section "[printers]" Processing section "[print$]" Processing section "[MP3]" Processing section "[PICTURES]" Processing section "[VIDEO]" Loaded services file OK. Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions [global] workgroup = HOME server string = %h server (Samba %v) obey pam restrictions = Yes passdb backend = tdbsam, passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n . syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 server signing = auto preferred master = No domain master = No panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d invalid users = root [homes] comment = Home Directories invalid users = read only = No create mask = 0640 directory mask = 0750 browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /tmp create mask = 0700 printable = Yes browseable = No [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/printers [MP3] path = /mnt/usbhd/mp3/ read only = No hosts allow = **.**.**.**/**.**.**.** [PICTURES] path = /mnt/usbhd/Pictures/ read only = No hosts allow = **.**.**.**/**.**.**.** [VIDEO] path = /mnt/usbhd/Video read only = No I have checked the logs for any error and this is the smbd log which give this: [2006/09/13 20:12:20, 0] lib/util.c:log_stack_trace(1699) BACKTRACE: 7 stack frames: #0 smbd(log_stack_trace+0x23) [0x822b763] #1 smbd(smb_panic+0x46) [0x822b856] #2 smbd [0x81ea941] #3 smbd(initialize_password_db+0xe) [0x81ea98e] #4 smbd(main+0x591) [0x82c1cd1] #5 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xc8) [0xb7c44ea8] #6 smbd [0x8082a31] [2006/09/13 20:12:20, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1600) smb_panic(): calling panic action [/usr/share/samba/panic-action 6192] [2006/09/13 20:12:20, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1608) smb_panic(): action returned status 0 [2006/09/13 20:12:20, 0] lib/fault.c:dump_core(173) dumping core in /var/log/samba/cores/smbd I checked the reference /var/log/samba/cores/smbd but its not a txt based file so I can't say what is in it. My distro is debian testing with 2.6.15 kernel (from debian) Samba is 3.0.23 (normal apt install from debian) Any suggestions Tim P.S. Sorry for then long post ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
