[Samba] net rpc commands not working

[John Drescher]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Leandro Tracchia <ltracchia at gmail.com> wrote:
> problem solved. i had to add 127.0.0.1 to the interfaces list of smb.conf.
> this is because i had set bind interfaces only = yes.
>
> the manpage makes mention of smbpasswd not working properly if bind
> interfaces only is set and the network address 127.0.0.1 is not added to the
> interfaces parameter.
>
> i guess this also applies to correct functionality of the net rpc command,
> although the man page makes no mention of this and i'm not very
> knowledgeable to explain to you how it does apply. but it worked for me.
>

The reason for this is that eth1 and lo are seen as 2 different
network cards and listening on eth1 does not allow you to listen on lo
(which gives you 127.0.0.1).

John