[Samba] Samba Problem on AIX

[William Jojo]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, earl.rose at us.aonwarranty.com wrote:

>
> An error occurred while reconnecting T: to \\wara01\TSMreports
> Microsoft Windows Network: This local device name is already in use
> This connection has not been restored
>
> I received this error a couple of times before.  But when I cleared out
> the logs and refreshed the inetd daemon the problem was resolved. However,
> that did not work today.   I went through all the troubleshooting steps
> and have concluded the following:
> -  Networking software is working
> - TCP with FTP is working
> - Samba daemons (nmbd & smbd) are running
> - The daemons are bound to ports (netstat -a )
> - inetd.conf lines are correct
>  netbios-ssn     stream  tcp     nowait  root
> /opt/Samba/3.0.21a/sbin/smbd smbd
>  netbios-ns      dgram   udp     wait    root
> /opt/Samba/3.0.21a/sbin/nmbd nmbd
> - smbd works with telnet
> - testparm shows no error messages
>

I've not had a log of success with inetd controlling access to Samba. You 
should either script the nmbd and smbd startup or use swat. smbd will fork 
children as necessary.

You may also want to look at 3.0.21b based on the release note entries 
alone.


Cheers,

Bill