[Samba] SAMBA doesn't like me anymore :(

[Steve Morley]

Hi All,

Okay, SAMBA officially doesn't like me or something.

Here's the poop:

- Brand-new FreeBSD 4.7 box
- SAMBA 2.2.6pre2 (built from the ports tree)
- I have dual NICs, one on 192.168.1 (students) the other on 192.168.2 (staff)
- I need two operational workgroups "STUDENTS" & "STAFF" each tied to their
  own interface.
- This machine needs to do all the authentication stuff, dunno if that
  requires it to be a PDC (strictly Win9X machines), and if you can run
  two PDC's...

Yesterday morning I had it launching two seperate instances of smbd and nmbd
at the same time, one for workgroup "STAFF" the other for "STUDENTS".  I
started adding more features to smb.conf.staff and smb.conf.students and
somewhere along the way I broke it.  I can no longer start up two instances
anymore :(

This is now desperate for me, I need to swap out the old 2.0.* server this
weekend.  One major reason for the upgrade is the dual workgroup setup as it
wasn't supported in 2.0.* .

I've even gone back to bare bones conf files, but apparently that wasn't
what caused it to stop working in the first place I guess.

The problem is that it seems to be ignoring the --pidfile directive :(

Here's my startsamba script:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash

/usr/local/sbin/smbd -D -s /usr/local/etc/smb.conf.staff
/usr/local/sbin/nmbd -D -s /usr/local/etc/smb.conf.staff

/usr/local/sbin/smbd -D -s /usr/local/etc/smb.conf.students --pidfile /var/run2/smbd.pid
/usr/local/sbin/nmbd -D -s /usr/local/etc/smb.conf.students --pidfile /var/run2/smbd.pid


The first set places the .pid files in /var/run which has
drwxr-xr-x   3 root    wheel

so I created /var/run2 with the same permissions.

Again, this worked for the better part of a day yesterday...

My (now) minimal conf files are:

> [global]
>    workgroup = STAFF
>    hosts allow = 192.168.2 127.
>    interfaces = 192.168.2.200/24
> 
> [homes]
>    comment = "Home Directory of %u"
>    guest ok = no
>    read only = no
>    browseable = no
>    writeable = yes

Only difference is the workgroup = STUDENTS and the IP stuff for their .conf
file.

log.smbd reads:

> [2002/11/22 10:58:09, 0] smbd/server.c:main(707)
>   smbd version 2.2.6pre2 started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002
> [2002/11/22 10:58:09, 0] smbd/server.c:main(707)
>   smbd version 2.2.6pre2 started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002
> [2002/11/22 10:58:09, 0] lib/pidfile.c:pidfile_create(86)
>   ERROR: smbd is already running. File /var/run/smbd.pid exists and process id 406 is running.

log.nmbd reads:

> [2002/11/22 10:58:09, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(794)
>   Netbios nameserver version 2.2.6pre2 started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002
> [2002/11/22 10:58:09, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(794)
>   Netbios nameserver version 2.2.6pre2 started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002
> [2002/11/22 10:58:09, 0] lib/pidfile.c:pidfile_create(86)
>   ERROR: nmbd is already running. File /var/run/nmbd.pid exists and process id 408 is running.


So obviously for some reason it's now ignoring the --pidfile directive and
trying to dump it into the default locaction of /var/run ...

Again, I had these two running simultaneously yesterday, but when I was
stumped with the trust stuff (moving up from 2.0.* which as I recall didn't
have them) I must have done something stupid to break it :(

help?

Steve