[Samba] getting ERROR: failed to setup guest info. But I cannot setup a guest account due to security policies

[steve]

On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 09:41 -0500, Jon West wrote:
> I'm trying to set up samba so that we can login to our RHEL 5.5 machines
> with our Windows 2008 R2 Active directory credentials. I am succesfully
> able to join the domain, but I cannot get the SMBD deamon to stay running
> and my log.smbd log is show  the

Hi
If that's all you want to do and you have posted the entirety of your
smb.conf then you shouldn't be running smbd. Is this the full setup?
Cheers,
Steve