[Samba] smbd and nmbd refuses to run

[Elliot Williams]

hi. i need some urgent help. all of a sudden my domain started missing. i
could not save my profile either. i decided to reboot my linux machine and
samba refused to run. it was working before. when i rebooted it said domain
is not available. so i checked the processes in my linux machine. but smbd
and nmbd was not running.

i ran this

/usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -D
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D

but when i did a ps axf .. i could not see the samba process running.
meaning the above 2 commands.. something is going on .. please help. the
log file does not even get updated.