[Samba] smbd hanging on OS X 10.4.8

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:17:09PM -0400, nicerobot wrote:
> Sure, I run smbd like this, "smbd -i -d 100 -s /etc/smb.conf", yet
> startup never completes. It hangs at the point shown below, last line
> output is "ROOT/HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/: [Print] (data)".
> It happens regardless of how minimal or extravagant my smb.conf is. I've
> compared my debugging to the output from Apple's support debugging
> output and it definitely appears to be something with printer
> configuration yet I've tried every setting I've found that could affect
> printer conf and no change.
> Thanks

smbd -i means "run interactive", ie. don't become a daemon.
Of course startup never completes.....

Try without the -i.

Jeremy.