[Samba] error message in smbd.log file: bind failed on port 139 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0.

[phil brogan]

Thanks!  I found that DIAGNOSIS.txt is also delivered with the binaries,
I found it in /usr/share/doc/samba-2.2.7a/docs/textdocs.


> I would walk through DIAGNOSIS.txt, which comes with the samba
sources.
>
> Joel

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 02:26:15AM +0000, phil brogan wrote:
>  > > tcp is a transport protocol. It isn't a daemon. You have not
>  > > understood the
>  > > output.
>  > > Post the output of netstat -anp | grep 139.
>  > > Is xinetd or inetd or smbd listening to this port?
>  >
>  >
>  > I tried netstat -anp | grep 139 and I see that it is indeed xinetd
>  > which
>  > is listening on that port.  How do I resolve this conflict?
>
> I removed xinetd's files for netbios-ns and netbios-ssn, started nmbd
> and smbd and they are running.  Oddly enough, I created the netbios-ns

> and netbios-ssn files for xinetd as per instructions from Jerry
Carter's
> book "Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours".  Why would that book tell me
to
> do something that breaks Samba?
>
> Anyway...
>
> I did an smbstatus, got error message "Failed to open byte range
locking
> database", fixed it by using command "smbclient -L localhost".
>
> I went to a Win98 machine, did a "net view \\linux-computer-name" and
> received an Error 53 message from Windows "The computer name in the
> network path cannot be located."  Yet I can ping linux-computer-name
by
> name from the Win98 box.
>
> Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
>
>
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