Help! bind failed on port 139 ... Address already in use

[Steve]

Make sure you do not have any other daemons listening on port 137-139
 
check that by running 
"netstat -a"

SMBD is saying that there is already an application running on the NetBIOS
ports. 

Steve


On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Hung Nguyen-Manager wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I had samba installed with RedHat 6.2. When I made it running by
> updating inetd.conf, services, smb.conf as instructed in the man of
> smbd, smbd always failed to start up with the last message:
>   bind failed on port 139. socket_addr=0.0.0.0 (Address already in use)
> 
> I couldn't find out which address smbd referred to here
> 
> Can someone help me with this
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> 
> Hung Nguyen
> 
> 
> 
>