[Samba] nmbd port problem

[Martyn Ranyard]

Yes, you could run the server on a different port, but it would lose it's 
functionality - WINS is pre-set on windows machines and they will look on 
the default ports of nmbd.

Options :

Get the programmer to not use other specified ports (see /etc/services and 
pick one of the unused ones) - these are standards he/she is breaking and 
should be convinced to change that - or

Get his/her program to bind to one address only, and run with different IPs 
e.g. his software runs on the current IP say 10.0.0.1 and samba binds to 
10.0.0.5 - or

Don't use WINS and have problems looking up machine names on windows clients.

Martyn

Hope this helps

At 08:59 AM 4/10/02 -0700, Jon Houg wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am using Samba 2.0.10 on a Red Hat 7.1 machine.  When attempting to start
>the 2 Samba background tasks - "smbd" and "nmbd", I get this error in the
>"log.nmb" file:
>
>         bind failed on port 137 socket_addr=0.0.0.0 (Address already in use)
>
>To make a long story short, I've determined that there is another process
>from one of our own products using this same port 137.  I've contacted the
>Developer of this product and asked him if the port that this product uses,
>can be changed.  He said this cannot be done.  So, my question to the Samba
>community is, is there a way I can tell Samba either through the "smb.conf"
>file or some other means, to use a port other than 137 and/or 139 to start
>"nmbd" and successfully use Samba along with our own product on this same
>machine?
>
>Thanks,
>
>============================================================================
>=============
>Jon Houg
>Peregrine Systems
>jon.houg at peregrine.com
>
>
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Martyn Ranyard

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and anything that I say may not be as
accurate as a response from one of the
team.  I reply to save those more
qualified time, which can more usefully
be spent developing SAMBA further.