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

[Marian Mlcoch, Ing]

Hallo
your problem is in conf...
Location of pid files is conf parameter not cmd line...
in global students try
pid directory = /var/run2/


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Morley" <steve at morleys.org>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 8:25 PM
Subject: [Samba] SAMBA doesn't like me anymore :(


> 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
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