[Samba] nmbd fails to start

[Battersby-Cornmell, Robin Alasdair]

Dear all,

I regret that I am very new to this tool from the install side.  I have so far altered shares on a running machine only.

I have (thanks to Joss for some help already) installed version 3.4.3 under AIX 6.1 giving it our preferred base directory of /opt/freeware/samba/3.4.3

I have copied over the smb.conf file from the source machine (AIX 5.2 / Samba 2.0.7) and tweaked the content of .../sbin so that a shell script intercepts the call to the real swat, smbd and nmbd to ensure that the correct PATH & LIBPATH are set and this seems to work fine for swat & smbd, but nmbd always fails with the following in .../var/log.nmbd:-

[2009/12/01 14:27:07,  0] nmbd/nmbd.c:854(main)
  nmbd version 3.4.3 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009
[2009/12/01 14:27:07,  0] lib/util_sock.c:938(open_socket_in)
  bind failed on port 137 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0.
  Error = The socket name is already in use.

It is true that the port 137 is in use as inetd has the entries:-

netbios-ssn stream tcp  nowait  root    /opt/freeware/samba/3.4.3/bin/smbd smbd
netbios-ns  dgram  udp  wait    root    /opt/freeware/samba/3.4.3/bin/nmbd nmbd

This is how we have it on the old server where nmbd is running.  Oddly, smbd starts just fine and swat allows me to manage the smb.conf file - not that I understand most of the options.  I must admit that I don't know what nmbd does, I'm just trying to replicate the services from the live server to the replacement.


I still have no users being able to access the server, but I haven't even begun to look at security.  The old server has a pointer to a Windows domain controller, so I'm hoping that it is all contained in there and I just have to refer to it.



Sorry about the question.  The project manager is being a project manager and I have a go-live date of next weekend - and I have the DR server to build yet (racking the server, firmware, disk allocation etc)


Thanks in advance,
Robin
Unisys, Liverpool





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