can't initialise shared memory

[Greg Dickie]

I have seen this problem a coiuple of times intermittently. I suspect some kind
of memory corruption. Try starting and restarting samba, it has occasionaly
worked for me. In all cases it just seems to "go away".

Greg

On 25-Mar-99 Patrick Barmentlo wrote:
> 
> Hai..
> 
> I have a strange problem.
> 
> have a samba box.. (2.0.2) running on a FreeBSD 3.0 .
> with systemV shared mem options in my kernel..
> 
> It used to work oke..
> It is an NT domain member. all authentication handeld by  the PDC.
> 
> 
> suddenly.. i get the following mess:
> 
> "ERROR: Failed to initialise share modes!
> Can't initialise shared memory - exiting"
> 
> this i get with the smbstatus commmand..
> 
> I can't figure out what's the problem..it workt for a while (2 months)
> 
> With some higher debugging on .. i can see it communicate with the NT pdc.
> put as soon as i want to use a share.. ;-(
> 
> Hope anyone can point me out to some right direction..
> 
> (i use samba to be a 'nfs' gateway to use homedirs on a NFS server..)
> 
> 
> 
> Regards.
> 
> patrick
> 
> 
> 

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