[Samba] Re: Address already in use on samba 2.2.3.a

[Tom Diehl]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Richard Gliebe (riglEDV.at) wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> when I try to start the nmbd -D daemon on my OpenServer5.0.5 box,
> I'll get the errormessage in log.nmbd:
> [...]
> [2002/03/12 19:30:18, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:(783)
>   Netbios nameserver version 2.2.3a started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002
> [2002/03/12 19:30:18, 0] lib/util_sock.c:(789)
>   bind failed on port 137 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0.
>   Error = Address already in use
> [...)
> 
> but there is no process on port 137:
> # lsof -i -P | egrep ":137|:139"
> smbd     912   root    8u  inet 0xf0ced800      0t0  TCP osr5:139 (LISTEN)
> 
> any ideas ?

Just a guess, are you running vmware? If so shutdown vmware and start samba
then restart vmware. If not ignore this. I have seen this with vmware many 
times.

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