trouble installing 2.2 on solaris

David Casti david at casti.com
Sat May 5 14:54:02 GMT 2001


>I'm having trouble getting samba 2.2 running on my solaris box.  smbd runs 
>fine, but nmbd writes this in the log and hen blows up --
>
>[2001/05/05 10:21:00, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(794)
>   standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
>[2001/05/05 10:21:01, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(834)
>   socket failed
>[2001/05/05 10:21:01, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:make_subnet(154)
>nmbd_subnetdb:make_subnet()
>   Failed to open dgram socket on interface 199.181.80.159 for port 
> 138.  Error was Too many open files
>[2001/05/05 10:21:01, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(831)
>   ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting.
>
>-- I'm lost on the "too many open files" error message, so I don't really 
>know where to start solving this problem.

Sorry for the post... I figured it out.  This server has a lot of virtual 
interfaces.  By specifying "interfaces = 199.181.80.151/24", I was able to 
get things working properly.

David.





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