[Samba] smbd fails to start on Fedora Core 4

[Gavin Simpson]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 12:43 -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> >   Failed to open /etc/samba/secrets.tdb
> > [2006/02/15 15:47:21, 0] passdb/machine_sid.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid(176)
> >   pdb_generate_sam_sid: Failed to store generated machine SID.
> > [2006/02/15 15:47:21, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1517)
> >   PANIC: Could not generate a machine SID
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> > [2006/02/15 15:47:21, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1525)
> >   BACKTRACE: 7 stack frames:
> >    #0 smbd(smb_panic2+0x8a) [0x31c07c]
> >    #1 smbd(smb_panic+0x19) [0x31c2c2]
> >    #2 smbd(get_global_sam_sid+0x2bc) [0x2d484c]
> >    #3 smbd(init_guest_info+0x65) [0x3626be]
> >    #4 smbd(main+0x2a7) [0x39dfb3]
> >    #5 /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdf) [0x6a5d5f]
> >    #6 smbd [0x19c4f1]
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> Either /etc/samba/secrets.tdb does not exist and you don't have the
> permission to create it or else possible /etc/samba/ itself does
> not exist.

Hi Jerry, 

Thanks for your reply. I noted that in the log, so tried to copy across
the secrets.tbd file from the previous installation. Once I got it there
I restarted smb but I get the same error message.

These are the contents of /etc/samba:

# ls -l /etc/samba
total 24
-rw-------  1 root root 8192 Aug 30 15:15 secrets.tdb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    0 Feb 15 15:30 smb.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   97 May  2  2005 smbusers

Are the permissions correct? I used rsync to back these things up and
the rsync arguments I used should have preserved them.

How do I go about getting the secrets.tdb file back then. Is this
distributed with Samba, or can I create an empty file of this name?

Thanks in advance

G

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> cheers, jerry
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