[Samba] smbd wont start

[Tim]

On Friday 15 September 2006 07:42, you wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> > Here the contents of /var/lib/samba
> >
> > Titan:/var/lib/samba# ls
> > account_policy.tdb  ntforms.tdb     perfmon       secrets.tdb
> > group_mapping.tdb   ntprinters.tdb  printers      share_info.tdb
> > ntdrivers.tdb       passdb.tdb      registry.tdb
>
> Yep.
>
> tdbbackup -v group_mapping.tdb
>
> gives here:
>
> group_mapping.tdb : 16 records
>
> > and /var/run/samba
> >
> > Titan:/var/run/samba# ls
> > lang_en.tdb  messages.tdb  nmbd.pid  perfmon  unexpected.tdb
>
> is the nmbd still running? But the smbd is not? If you use
>
> ps aux | grep nmbd

> is there a process? Otherwise you might have a stale pid, then you can just
> delete the pid file and start the services again.

Titan:/var/lib/samba# ps aux | grep nmbd
root      4792  0.0  0.1   5872  1380 ?        Ss   Sep13   
0:01 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D
root     23882  0.0  0.0   1952   608 pts/1    R+   20:50   0:00 grep nmbd

I killed the nmbd process off and tried restarting both, nmbd started and smbd 
failed


>
> > I assume when you typed NAME I should of used one of the .tdb files, but
> > which one???
>
> Try first passwd.tdb

Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v group_mapping.tdb
group_mapping.tdb : 13 records
Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v passdb.tdb
passdb.tdb : 51 records
Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v ntdrivers.tdb
ntdrivers.tdb : 1 records
Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v ntprinters.tdb
ntprinters.tdb : 4 records
Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v registry.tdb
registry.tdb : 48 records
Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v share_info.tdb
share_info.tdb : 1 records
Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v ntforms.tdb
ntforms.tdb : 0 records
Titan:/var/lib/samba# tdbbackup -v secrets.tdb
secrets.tdb : 1 records


Still no Samba

Tim

		
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