AW: [Samba] Unable to open configuration file "/etc/smb.conf"

[John Benedetto]

In the course of messages from "nero one", I have seen mention of these 
files:
/etc/smb.conf
/etc/smbd.conf
/usr/lib/smb.conf
/etc/samba/smb.conf

(Not mentioned by other people, but by the original poster, "nero one".)

Heck, your first message, a snippet included below, lists the first three. 
It looked to me like your original message references /usr/lib/smb.conf, 
but YOU were testing /etc/smbd.conf (according to what you cut 'n pasted, 
which is a wrong location - should be /etc/samba - and the wrong name - 
should be smb.conf, not smbd.conf).

I'm just confused. I'm another vote for "use the defaults" if at all 
possible.

- john

--On Tuesday, August 13, 2002 11:59 AM +0200 Uli Luckas 
<Uli.Luckas at abakusag.de> wrote:

> Try these two:
> bash> which testparam
> should tell you which testparam is being started. Is it where you expect
> it to be?
> bash> strace /full/path/testparam
> Gives you information on all system calls called from within testparam. It
> will give quite a bit of output and somewhere near the end you will find
> something like:
> open("/usr/lib/smb.conf", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = ...
>
> This would give you a hint to what testparam is trying to open and why it
> fails.
> Of course you need strace to be installed and you need to be root.
>
> Uli
>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: nero one [mailto:nero_oner at yahoo.com]
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. August 2002 00:44
>> An: samba at lists.samba.org
>> Betreff: [Samba] Unable to open configuration file "/etc/smb.conf"
>>
>>
>> Sorry about the last email - hit the enter button by accident.
>>
>> I'm using Red Hat 7.0 in conjunction with samba version 2.2.5
>>
>> When I try to run '#: testparm /etc/smbd.conf', i get the
>> following output:
>>
>> [root][~/install/tars]: testparm
>> Load smb config files from /usr/lib/smb.conf
>> params.c:OpenConfFile() - Unable to open configuration file
>> "/usr/lib/smb.conf":
>>         Success
>> Error loading services.
>>
>> . . .
>>
>> [root][/etc]: ls -all | grep smb
>> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         9643 Aug  6 02:59 smb.conf
>>
>> and the contents of smb.conf are :
>>
>>    workgroup = WORKGRP
>>    server string = SerVer
>>    hosts allow = 10.0.0. 0.
>>    load printers = yes
>>    printcap name = /etc/printcap
>>    printing = lprng
>>    max log size = 500
>>    security = user
>>    socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>>   interfaces = 10.0.0.0/8
>>    local master = yes
>>    os level = 33
>>    domain master = yes
>>    preferred master = yes
>>    domain logons = yes
>>    dns proxy = no
>>
>> [homes]
>>    comment = Home Directories
>>    browseable = no
>>    writable = yes
>>
>> [printers]
>>    comment = Network Printers
>>    path = /var/spool/samba
>>    browseable = no
>>    guest ok = no
>>    writable = no
>>    printable = yes
>>
>> [myshare]
>>    comment = Common Storage
>>    path = /home/common
>>    valid users = user1 user2 user3 user4
>>    public = yes
>>    writable = yes
>>    printable = no
>>    create mask = 0775
>>    directory mask = 0775
>>
>> [apache]
>>     comment = Apache tree
>>     guest account = apache
>>     path = /chroot/httpd/
>>     only guest = yes
>>     public = yes
>>     writable = yes
>>     printable = no
>>     create mask = 0775
>>     directory mask = 0775
>>
>> [clients]
>>     comment = Client trees
>>     guest account = apache
>>     path = /home/clients
>>     only guest = yes
>>     public = yes
>>     writable = yes
>>     printable = no
>>     create mask = 0775
>>     directory mask = 0775
>>
>> Any ideas what's going on?  If there's a necessity for more
>> information, please email and let me
>> know.  I'll be glad to put it up.
>>