[Samba] cannot start smbd on AIX 5.3

[William Jojo]

Ben,

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 16:11:18 -0700
>From: "BURRUEL, BENJAMIN D \(ATTSI\)" <bb1787 at att.com>  
>Subject: [Samba] cannot start smbd on AIX 5.3  
>To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
>
>Help please.
>
>I am in the process of configuring Samba 3.0.14a onto 4 AIX 5.3 systems.
>It seems to be working OK on 3 of the 4, but on the last one, I cannot
>start smbd.
>
>nmbd seems to start fine.
>The smb.conf file matches the other servers except that the server name
>is changed.
>
>Here's the error showing up on the log.smbd file.
>
>[2007/05/02 15:19:47, 0] smbd/server.c:main(835)
>  standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
>[2007/05/02 15:19:47, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(708)
>  bind failed on port 139 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0.
>  Error = Address already in use
>
>I'm hoping someone with network experience has seen this kind of error
>and can point me in the right direction to resolve.
>I did a "netstat -a | grep 139" but didn't see anything using port 139.
>

139 is in /etc/services as netbios-ssn. Try adding the -n switch to search for 139.

Also, 3.0.14a is rather old. You may want to consider getting binaries from:

http://us4.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/AIX/


Cheers,

Bill


>Ben Burruel
>Sr. Systems Manager
>Metrics & Mainframe Capacity Planning
>San Diego
>(858) 886-3363
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