Running Samba 2.0.6 on Alpha VMS

[John E. Malmberg]

J Beets <jbeets at cnd.co.newzealand>

> 
> Hello John/ other VMS Samba users,
> 
> Thanks for your help. I had upgraded to Samba 2.0.6 from 2.0.3 hoping it 
> would help but you're right - all the versions of Samba are affected including 
> 2.0.6
> 
> Adding /FLAGS=LISTEN stopped smbd crashing on start up.
> 
> I now have one remaining error in the smb.log file - can you help?


> (I have no printers on the VMS server)
> 
> [2001/11/27 09:11:24, 1] 
> CMS_ROOT:[SAMBA.SOURCE.SMBD]SERVER.C;2:(643) 
>   smbd version 2.0.6 started. 
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 
> [2001/11/27 09:11:25, 0] 
> CMS_ROOT:[SAMBA.SOURCE.PARAM]LOADPARM.C;2:(1797) 
>   No path in service printers - using /tmp 
> [2001/11/27 09:11:26, 0] 
> CMS_ROOT:[SAMBA_VMS.SOURCE.LIB]UTIL_SID.C;1:(262) 
>   string_to_sid: Sid  does not start with 'S-'. 
> [2001/11/27 09:11:26, 0] 
> CMS_ROOT:[SAMBA_VMS.SOURCE.PASSDB]PASSDB.C;1:(812) 
>   unable to generate machine SID. 
> [2001/11/27 09:11:26, 0] 
> CMS_ROOT:[SAMBA_VMS.SOURCE.PASSDB]PASSDB.C;1:(872) 
>   unable to read file SAMBA_ROOT/VAR/PRIVATE/MACHINE.SID. Error was 
> can't assign  requested address  
> [2001/11/27 09:11:26, 0] 
> CMS_ROOT:[SAMBA.SOURCE.SMBD]SERVER.C;2:(677) 
>   ERROR: Samba cannot create a SAM SID. 
> 
> Is this a privilege problem? Samba was installed under the System username.
> The smb.conf file is currently the default with only the workgroup name 
> changed and [tmp] enabled


The MACHINE.SID from SAMBA 2.0.3 can not be parsed by SAMBA 2.0.6.
If you delete the MACHINE.SID, Samba will recreate it, and all should be
well.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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