[Samba] WINS Server failing to start

[David.Brown at csm.com.au]

Thanks Joel,

I have found that the init script provided in official redhat packages is
slightly different to the one provided in the official samba packages. I am
going to replace the one in the samba package with the one in the redhat
package and see how it goes. I would lke to install the official redhat rpm
however it was released on Nov 22 - prior to the release of samba-2.2.7a
from samba. Therefore the latest samba package doesnt have all the large
file support fixes included in 2.2.7a.

I'll let the list know how it goes so (hopefully) anyone who has the same
problem will not tear their hair out.

Regards
_____________________________
David Brown
Systems Specialist
CSM Technology
Email: david.brown at csm.com.au
_____________________________


                                                                                                                                                    
                    Joel Hammer                                                                                                                     
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What is in samba start script? As I recall, the Redhat startup scripts are
extremely convoluted. Have you tried something simple like this?

#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
 start)
  killall smbd
  killall nmbd
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
/usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -D
  ;;

 stop)
  killall smbd
  killall nmbd
 ;;
 reload)
 kill -SIGHUP `cat /usr/local/samba/var/locks/smbd.pid`
 kill -SIGHUP `cat /usr/local/samba/var/locks/nmbd.pid`
 ;;
 *)
 echo Usage:
 echo start stop reload
 ;;
esac
exit 0

Or, just put a simple killall nmbd into your Redhat script.

Joel


On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:32:28AM +0930, David.Brown at csm.com.au wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just wondering if anyone has seen this problem before. Firstly heres some
> background.
>
> We run a fair few RH 7.2 servers which had been running samba 2.2.3a
> perfectly. I have now upgraded some of them to run samba 2.2.7a. On a few
> of these upgraded servers i find that when samba is stopped then started
or
> restarted WINS fails to come up. Running smbclient -L //server reports
> wins_server_died().
>
> Now having looked through the debug logs i have found that when the smb
> stop command is issued sometimes it fails to kill the running nmbd
> processes (both of them). Therefore when smb goes to start up it cant
start
> nmbd as it is already started but is not accepting connections.
>
> If i manually kill the nmbd processes it works no worries. Basically the
> init script is not killing the nmbd processes, however the init script is
> EXACTLY the same as the servers that work fine. (I might add that all the
> server configurations are identical). I have tried every combination of
> uninstall / reinstall / upgrade of the samba rpm without  luck. What
> puzzles me is that it only occurs on some of the servers.
>
> Obviously wins support = yes is set in the smb.conf file.
>
> Any ideas welcome. Thanks in advance.
> _____________________________
> David Brown
> Systems Specialist
> CSM Technology
> Darwin, NT, Australia
> Email: david.brown at csm.com.au
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