[Samba] samba stopped starting

[Joel Hammer]

Are you sure the pid files are being created or are they the old files?
Have you looked in the log files for smbd and nmbd to see what happened?
Anything in /var/log/messages?
I do not think reinstalling the OS is necessary to solve this problem.

Joel

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:00:32PM -0600, Robert Campbell wrote:
> I did a port scan with Nessus and now samba has stopped working.
>I run it with smbd -D and nmbd -D  and they both seem to start without any
>errors and the .pid files are created.  then I do a ps ax and neither of
>the programs are running but the .pids are still in place.  I had this
>problem once before... I tried upgrading samba before and everything
>but the only way I was able to fix it was to re-install the entire OS.
> I am running SlackWare8.0 now but the first time it happened was on
>SlackWare7.1 > any ideas how to fix this please?