[Samba] smbd fails to start on Fedora Core 4

[Gavin Simpson]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 15:26 -0500, James Kosin wrote:
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> Gavin Simpson wrote:
> >> 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?

Hi James,

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> Try running testparm, it could just be a mis-configured system.

Thanks, but I tried that. There is nothing wrong with the smbd.conf
file. I even tried to run things with a blank smbd.conf file to no
avail.

> 
> Check the logs also in /var/log/samba and /var/log/messages to see if
> you get any light at the end of the tunnel clues.

I'll take a look at /var/log/messages, but /var/log/samba/smbd.log is
complaining about a missing secrets.tdb file. I have such a file from
the previous installation with the same permissions as before but it
can't read it for some reason. If I delete the file, samba oesn't seem
able to create a new one, even though I made /etc/samba world writeable
to test.

I have removed all of samba from the system and done a clean re-install
but I still can't get this to work. I just can't understand what I did
that was so disastrous - all the files were working, as was samba, just
fine before I reinstalled the OS and copied back the /etc/samba files...

Cheers,

Gav 

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> James
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