smbd can not be started ?

[Fred Pishotta]

I had this problem which stumped me for a while, with p4 and Solaris
2.5&6.  The additional symptom was that there was never anything in the
log files either.  On a hunch, I tried starting smbd with the -s 
switch, and it worked, even though it "should" have worked without
that, or so I thought.  

I traced the problem to the fact that although the runtime directory
structure used symbolic links to look the same as the compile-time
directory structure, they were actually physically different, and the
"default" path to the configuration files, generated at compile-time was
the physical path, not the symbolic path.  Hence specifying the path
to the config files with the -s switch, seemed to fix the problem.
It's interesting that this was not a problem for nmbd, only smbd.
Curious.

-- Fred P.

On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Hongwei Li wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just installed samba-1.9.17p4 on my Linux 2.0.30 system.  It seems
> okay in compiling and installing.  I run testparm, and it lists the
> services I set in smb.conf without error message. However, I can only
> start nmbd, but not smbd -- nothing happens!  So, I can not test it
> further.  Can anybody give me an idea why it is like that?
> 
> Thanks for all the help!
> 
> Hongwei
>