[Samba] Samba installation discrepancies

[EHines]

Eric Evans wrote:
> Samba colleagues,
>
> I promise to limit my postings to this list to one message per day 
> from now on, and to keep my messages focussed on very specific 
> technical issues.  I think I have gotten over my initial panic at the 
> weirdly broken Samba installation and am now in a troubleshooting mode.
>
> The drama of all my Samba 3 difficulties now seems to be due to a 
> faulty Samba installation.  Symptoms are:
> bin/nmbd -V and bin/smbd -V both return version 2.2.7a, even though I 
> did a complete installation of version 3.0.22 and the installation 
> (including the 'make install') ran completely through to its 
> completion with no error messages.  Also, nmbd is currently running 
> but smbd is not running.  And when I try to run smbclient I get the 
> messages
>
> read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Connection reset 
> by peer.
> session request to PLEIADES failed (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
> read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Connection reset 
> by peer.
> session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Read error: Connection reset by 
> peer)
>
> My environment is Solaris 8.  Has anyone else had any difficulty 
> getting Samba 3 to install properly on Solaris 8?
>
> Thanks very much,
> Eric
>   
Oh, yeah, you can use chkconfig to see what services (e.g., winbindd, 
nmbd, smbd, etc) are running and to set them to turn on automatically at 
bootup.

Eric Hines

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