[Samba] Cannot start Samba 3.0.23a

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Michael Breen wrote:
> I just installed Samba 3.0.23a from the sources on a Slackware 10
> server kernal version 2.4.26. I didn't get any errors during
> installation. When I try to start the Samba daemon by smdb -D nothing
> happens. Here is a snippet from log.smbd:
> 
> [2006/07/28 20:22:27, 0] smbd/server.c:main(847)
>  smbd version 3.0.23a started.
>  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2006
> [2006/07/28 20:22:27, 0] passdb/pdb_interface.c:make_pdb_method_name(174)
>  No builtin nor plugin backend for smbpasswd guest found

Delete the passdb backend option from your smb.conf.
It defaults to smbpasswd and guest was never intended to be
included as a user-accessible backend.




cheers, jerry
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