[Samba] smbd service won't start

[Gilbert C Healton]

You need to ensure samba is automatically started at boot time. On
UNIX/Linux systems with a /etc/init.d/smb file, login as root and enter
the following command:

	# chkconfig --list smb

If the reply does not have levels 3 through 5 ON, as shown below, you
need to enable Samba at boot time.

   smb       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on  6:off		

To enable Samba, continue with the following commands

	# chkconfig --add smb
	# chkconfig smb on

Assuming you have killed all of the SAMBA daemons, programs, etc., you
manually started, and NO SAMBA PROGRAMS are running at all, you can
issue the following to start Samba without having to reboot:

	# service smb start

(there is also a stop, restart, and reload option to `service smb`)


Do you know about the swat program for configuring Samb from web
browsers?

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On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Richard Gliebe (riglEDV.at) wrote:

>From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
>Behalf Of Routledge, Carl
>Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:23 PM wrote:
>
>> I have been looking at samba for about 3 days and on Unix to
>> provide shares
>> for our NT system.
>> My problem is that I can't seem to start the smbd process.  There are some
>> started but by the guest user and I'm sure I need one started by the root
>> user.
>>
>> If I simply type the command it returns no errors to the screen, but there
>> are errors in the log.smb file.  The error is: -
>>
>> standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
>> bind failed on port 139 socket_addr=0.0.0.0 (Address already in use)
>>
>> Can anyone suggest anything??
>
>Hi there,
>
>I have/had the same problem with smbd and nmbd,
>
>to fix the problem with the smbd I made the following entry in
>smb.conf:
>socket address = 192.168.1.5 (your LAN-IP)
>interfaces = net0 192.168.1.5/24 (NIC and IP)
>bind interfaces only = Yes
>
>the daemons are started with the "-D" option from command-line.
>
>but my nmbd still have the same problem:
>[2002/03/13 19:01:34, 0] lib/util_sock.c:(789)
>  bind failed on port 137 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0.
>  Error = Address already in use
>[2002/03/13 19:01:34, 3] lib/util_sock.c:(789)
>
>Any ideas ?
>
>Richard
>
>
>
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