[Samba] smbd fails to start on Fedora Core 4

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Gavin Simpson wrote:

>> 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?

if you remove the file, smbd should just create a new on
on startup.  Of course this will also generate a new MACHINE/Domain
SID which could be a problem if this is a domain controller.





cheers, jerry
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