[Samba] smbd fails to start on Fedora Core 4

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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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?

Davin,

Try running 'smbd -d 10 -i' as root and see if that gives
any clues as to why the secrets.tdb cannot be created.
Also try running 'strace -e trace=open smbd -d 0 -i'.
Maybe there's some clue there.

What filesystems does the /etc/ directory reside on?





cheers, jerry
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