[Samba] Netbios-ns/udp server failing

[John H Terpstra]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Tom Haerens wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've installed Samba 2.2.7 on a Solaris8 machine.  Everyting is working
> well. Except the fact that I get the following message over and over
> again:
>
> Inetd[156]: netbios-ns/udp server failing (looping), service terminated.
>
> Can you help me out?

We can try, but really you need to help us a bit too. Our crystal ball
wore out a long time ago and now we find that we have to guess too much.

So help us out please. How is your samba configured?

Is it running from /etc/inetd.conf (on Solaris that could be a different
path) or as a daemon?

If you are starting samba by running nmbd and smbd as daemons then do make
sure that it can not start through inetd. Ther error message is from inetd
and suggests that 137/udp is already in use, or alternatively that the
path specified in your inetd configuration for nmbd is wrong.

- John T.
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org