[Samba] smbd fails to start on Fedora Core 4

[Gavin Simpson]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 13:06 -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Gavin Simpson wrote:
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> >> 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?
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> 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.

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for the help. I just removed the file and tried a restart. Same
problem as before and same messages in smbd.log. No secrets.tdb created.
I changed write permissions on this directory temporarily to make it
world writable and tried again - with the same results.

I'm basically only using samba for the print serving, so I'm not worried
about the SID.

Any other suggestions I can try?

All the best,

Gav

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> cheers, jerry
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