Error mesage

[Andrew Bartlett]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> "MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)" wrote:
> >
> > Hi Harmeet,
> > It sounds like at one point in time smbd/nmbd was started by someone not
> > logged in
> > DIRECTLY as root - maybe they did a su, or used some security program that
> > sets effective
> > uid to root; anyway, what this message generally means is that the creator
> > of the samba
> > shared memory id/semaphore id is not 'root'.  You should be able to resolve
> > this by
> > killing any smbd and nmbd daemons and doing
> > ipcrm -S 0x00280269
> > and
> > ipcrm -M 0x00280267
> >
> > then, while logged in as root, start samba; nmbd -D and smbd -D
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Don
> 
> The other thing that happens (very, very occasionally) is that another
> process has picked that number for its shared memory area (apache? - It
> happended to me once and it was easier to reboot the machine), and
> smbstatus is therefore refusing to read it.  The shared memory are is
> unimportant, particulary as it doesn't do anything unless you recompile
> samba --with-profiling-data.  Smbstatus should just ignore the shared
> memory area in this case, instead of exiting.

I missed the detail about this being 2.0.5.  Now you see why we moved to
tdbs...

Andrew Bartlett

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