[Samba] Re: Cannot start samba

[Matt Silva]

Sorry I thought you were trying to get the 2.2 running again but its the
3.0 version you want to get running ... you were perfectly clear it was 
I who
misread it ...

I was doing some searching ... and could not find anything useful ... 
sorry, try 2.2.8a
I have installed on Red Hat 9 ...

Bruno Pinaud wrote:

>yes i'm using init.d (redhat style). samba is installed in 
>/usr/local/samba-3.0.0rc4/. I've got a symbolic link to /usr/local/samba 
>which is used by the init.d script.
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>Le Mercredi 24 Septembre 2003 19:22, Matias Silva a écrit :
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>>It looks like you are still trying to access the 3.0 version pid file
>>
>> > /usr/local/samba-3.0.0rc4/var/locks/nmbd.pid failed. Error was Invalid
>> > argument
>>
>>How are you starting and stopping samba?  Are you using init.d?
>>
>>Matias
>>
>>Bruno Pinaud wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>I currently have an old samba 2.2.2 on my network. It's working, but it's
>>>quite old...
>>>I tried version 3.0.0rc4 but it doesn't want to start. Here are the
>>>errors :
>>>
>>>[2003/09/23 18:27:45, 8] lib/util.c:fcntl_lock(1621)
>>>  fcntl_lock 6 13 0 1 1
>>>[2003/09/23 18:27:45, 3] lib/util.c:fcntl_lock(1632)
>>>  fcntl_lock: fcntl lock gave errno 22 (Invalid argument)
>>>[2003/09/23 18:27:45, 3] lib/util.c:fcntl_lock(1651)
>>>  fcntl_lock: lock failed at offset 0 count 1 op 13 type 1 (Invalid
>>>argument) [2003/09/23 18:27:45, 0] lib/pidfile.c:pidfile_create(97)
>>>  ERROR: nmbd : fcntl lock of file
>>>/usr/local/samba-3.0.0rc4/var/locks/nmbd.pid failed. Error was Invalid
>>>argument
>>>
>>>The server is a linux 2.4.17 (i cannot change the kernel).
>>>Can you help me ?
>>>      
>>>
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