[Samba] Second Posting! Please reply - Need HELP!!

[Joel Hammer]

Do you really expect any body to read all of this stuff?
What IS the problem?
Joel
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:52:00AM -0800, issue qad wrote:
> I am first time SAMBA user. System information:
> Unix = HP-UX 11.0
> Network = Windows 2000
> 
> Things that I did:
> 1)	Logged into our test unix box as “root”. Created a
> directory “samba” underneath “/home/root”.
> 2)	Went to samba website and downloaded
> “samba-2.2.7a.tar.gz” onto my “C:\” (my desktop). I am
> aware that the latest “How to” book in its
> “Installation section asks me to use command “wget
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-2.2.7a.tar.gz”
> from my unix prompt, but unfortunately “wget” does not
> work on my unix box.
> 3)	FTP the “samba-2.2.7a.tar.gz” to test unix box in
> binary mode.
> 4)	Used “gunzip samba-2.2.7a.tar.gz”
> 5)	Next step would be to verify Samba’s PGP signature.
> But again, unfortunately, “gpg” command does not work
> on my machine, so had to proceed further without
> verification. Should I have used a different approach
> for this verification?
> 6)	Used “cd /tmp”. Then did “tar xf
> /home/root/samba/samba-2.2.7a.tar”. This did create
> the directory “samba-2.2.7a” underneath “/tmp” and
> with all the other folders and files underneath
> “samba-2.2.7a”
> 7)	Then went back to
> “/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/hp/samba-2.2.7a” website
> and downloaded the HP-UX depot
> “samba_2.2.7a_HPUX_withwinbind.depot.gz” onto my “C:\”
> and then FTP’ed that over to test unix box in
> underneath “/tmp” directory in binary mode.
> 8)	Then used “swinstall –s
> /tmp/samba_2.2.7a_HPUX_withwinbind.depot.gz Samba”.
> 9)	Then used “/sbin/init.d/samba start” to start smbd
> and nmbd.
> 10)	Then edited my “/etc/nsswitch.conf” to add 
> “passwd: files winbind
> grouyp: files winbind”
> 11)	I think I am also supposed to do some setup in
> “/etc/pam.d”, but this file never got created. It does
> not exist.
> 12)	Used “/usr/local/samba/bin/smpasswd –j mydomain –r
> mypdc –U administrator”. This joined the unix server
> to “mydomain”. But also gave the error message about
> “Unicode_map.850” and “Unicode_map.ISO8559” didn’t
> exist underneath “codepages” directory. I know that I
> do have “CP850.txt” and “CPIS8559.txt” files, but I
> was not able to create those binary Unicode files
> because I do not have the right “make_unicodemap”
> excecutable. Can someone help me with this? I have
> “make_unicodemap.c” executable but that seems be
> taking input file in format “unicode_def.850”, which I
> do not have. But note that I was able to Join to
> mydomain.
> 13)	When I looked at “/usr/local/samba/log.smbd” and
> “log.nmbd” files they had the same error message of
> above two Unicode files not existing. But those two
> processes “smbd and nmbd” start properly and I can see
> them running on the box.
> 14)	Then copied libnss_winbind.so to “/lib” and
> pam_winbind.so to /lib/security.
> 15)	I copied
> “/tmp/samba-2.2.7a/examples/simple/smb.conf” to
> /usr/local/samba/lib. I edited this file to add
> following into [global]:
> Winbind separator = +
> Winbind cache time = 10
> Template shell = /bin/bash
> Template homedir = /home/%D/%U
> Winbind uid = 10000-20000
> Winbind gid = 10000-20000
> Workgroup = mydomain
> Security = domain
> Password server = *
> Encrypt passwords = yes
> 16)	 Then I start “winbind daemon” by using
> “/usr/local/samba/bin/winbindd –s
> /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf”.
> 17)	And bingo, I was able to achieve my objective of
> able to access Unix files from my “windows explorer”
> underneath “Network neighbourhood”.
> 18)	Now my problem begins. I tried to get fancy and
> wanted to add some more directories that users can
> access from Windows explorer. So I went ahead and
> edited “/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf” for those
> directories. Now I needed “winbindd” to see these
> changes. But I did not how/from where to use “SIGHUP”
> to reload my smb.conf. I did a “find / -name sighup
> –print” and I was unable to get any instances. I tried
> the same with SIGHUP (caps) and cannot find any
> instances. So I thought of just taking down this TEST
> unix box. I used “shutdown –ry now” [probably FIRST
> MISTAKE during this samba set-up].
> 19)	After the unix box was back up I tried to use
> start smbd and nmbd. “nmbd” was able to start up
> without any problems. But smbd didn’t start. When I
> looked at “log.smbd” I saw the error message of
> “Unable to start messages database”. And when used
> “/usr/local/samba/bin/smpasswd –j mydomain –r mypdc –U
> administrator”, system still joined to mydomain. When
> I start “winbindd”, it won’t start and gave me error
> messages in “log.winbindd” that “Unable to start idmap
> databases”. Also I noticed that my
> “/usr/local/samba/var/locks” directory was GONE.
> Because that was one of the error messages in
> “log.winbindd” that could not find
> “/usr/local/samba/var/locks”. That’s when I realized
> that I could have corrupted the database files like
> “/usr/local/samba/var/locks/winbindd_idmap.tdb” and
> “messages.tdb”.
> 20)	That’s when I proceed to my biggest screw up of
> reloading the entire software again. To do that, I
> deleted following directories:
> /tmp/samba-2.2.7a
> /var/usr/local/samba
> /home/root/samba
> 	I was not able to delete a file
> “/usr/local/samba/lib/winbind/libnss_winbind.so”. If I
> try to use “rm –f 
> /usr/local/samba/lib/winbind/libnss_winbind.so”. I get
> the message “rm: libnss_winbind.so not removed.  Text
> file busy”. I was logged in as “root”. So I was unable
> to delete “/usr/local/samba” directory. Also, I
> deleted the file “/etc/rc.config.d/samba”. Then I
> started to load things back by using above steps 1
> through 8. After this when I looked at
> “/usr/local/samba/” there was nothing created
> underneath there by this new load. No other
> directories created, only thing in there was
> “lib/winbind” with the file “libnss_winbind.so” which
> I was not able to delete. Also, file
> “/etc/rc.config.d/samba” did not get created either.
> Probably this file is used for running smbd and nmbd.
> 
> Many of you are probably saying “I screwed up big
> time”, I know. So what can I do at this point? Any
> chances of me to get back to where I was (working
> condition)? This is all on my test unix box.
> 
> Appreciate all your sympathy.
> 
> 
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