[Samba] Re: problems compiling Samba 2.2.8 on Solaris 2.8

[Matt Yahna]

Check your smb.conf and the log file variable.

"Greg Petras" <gregp-samba at nyfix.com> wrote in message
news:D0E20C380A94FA44B5A0A7E63975F6FD0150C248 at exchange.nyfix.com...
> Hi -
>
> I am trying to compile and install 2.2.8 to /opt/samba, but I keep getting
> the following errors after I 'make install' and try to start smbd using
> '/opt/samba/sbin/smbd -d 2 -D -s /opt/samba/lib/smb.conf':
>
>   Unable to open new log file /usr/local/samba/var/log.smbd: No such file
or
> directory
> [2003/03/25 10:21:56, 0] lib/debug.c:reopen_logs(348)
>   Unable to open new log file /usr/local/samba/var/log.smbd: No such file
or
> directory
> [2003/03/25 10:21:56, 2] lib/interface.c:add_interface(81)
>   added interface ip=172.26.38.51 bcast=255.255.255.255 nmask=0.0.0.0
> [2003/03/25 10:21:56, 0] passdb/secrets.c:secrets_init(44)
>   Failed to open /usr/local/samba/etc/private/secrets.tdb
> [2003/03/25 10:21:56, 0] passdb/machine_sid.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid(163)
>   pdb_generate_sam_sid: Failed to store generated machine SID.
> [2003/03/25 10:21:56, 0] smbd/server.c:main(877)
>   ERROR: Samba cannot create a SAM SID.
>
> The weird thing is these errors appear in /opt/samba/var, but it is still
> complaining about /usr/local/samba.
>
> When I ran the ./configure script I used the following options:
>
> # ./configure --prefix=/opt/samba \
> --with-privatedir=/opt/samba/private --with-lockdir=/opt/samba/var/locks \
> --with-piddir=/opt/samba/var/locks --with-swatdir=/opt/samba/swat \
> --with-configdir=/opt/samba/lib --with-logfilebase=/opt/samba/var \
> --with-logfilebase=/opt/samba/var --with-automount
>
> So I did properly set my logfile base to /opt/samba/var but samba still
> seems to think it should be /usr/local/samba. Did I forget something? Any
> help is much appreciated as I am fairly new to Samba.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
>
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