[Samba] I am so frustrated - Samba ports not opening and no error message

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:40:20PM -0400, Matt Burkhardt wrote:
> Okay - I've been plugging away and it got to the point that running
> smbclient was returning information about an Alfresco install that I
> never used, so I went ahead and deleted everything I could find on my
> machine that said "alfresco".  I then removed samba using apt-get from
> the machine by typing
> 
> apt-get remove --purge samba 
> 
> I deleted the /etc/samba directory and re-installed samba.
> 
> So now I've made sure that DHCP, DNS and OpenLDAP are now working
> correctly and I started to reconfigure Samba.  I start it up and I look
> at the log.smbd and log.nmbd files, don't see a single error message and
> when I run nmap - there's nothing listening on the ports that Samba is
> supposed to be using.  I have no firewall set up and nothing between me
> and the server.   Here's showing that the daemons are running:
> 
>  ps -e | grep mb
>  6984 ?        00:00:00 nmbd
>  6986 ?        00:00:00 smbd
> 
> Here's the results from nmap
> 
>  nmap ubuntu
> 
> Starting Nmap 4.53 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2009-06-05 17:34 EDT
> Interesting ports on 192.168.1.100:
> Not shown: 1697 closed ports
> PORT      STATE SERVICE
> 22/tcp    open  ssh
> 53/tcp    open  domain
> 80/tcp    open  http
> 81/tcp    open  hosts2-ns
> 82/tcp    open  xfer
> 83/tcp    open  mit-ml-dev
> 111/tcp   open  rpcbind
> 389/tcp   open  ldap
> 443/tcp   open  https
> 631/tcp   open  ipp
> 901/tcp   open  samba-swat
> 3306/tcp  open  mysql
> 5001/tcp  open  commplex-link
> 5432/tcp  open  postgres
> 8009/tcp  open  ajp13
> 8080/tcp  open  http-proxy
> 10000/tcp open  snet-sensor-mgmt

This ports list shows smbd is not binding to the external
ports. smbd uses TCP 139 & 445. nmbd uses udp 137 and 138.

Jeremy