[Samba] error messages

Martin Smith lists at rakupottery.org.uk
Sat Jul 12 06:22:15 MDT 2014


On 12/07/2014 09:11, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 12/07/14 08:48, Martin Smith wrote:
>> On 11/07/2014 22:56, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 09:20:16PM +0100, Martin Smith wrote:
>>>> I have a brand new in stall of samba4 on a FreeBSD 10 machine and I
>>>> am getting these messages on the console practically all the time.
>>>> I have actually disabled load printer list in globals but it does
>>>> not seem to make any difference, I am not intending to use it as a
>>>> printserver at all, just for files, it is to replace a system which
>>>> is quite old and running out of space
>>>>
>>>> Jul 11 20:24:25 server smbd[2480]: [2014/07/11 20:24:25.107693, 0]
>>>> ../lib/util/pidfile.c:153(pidfile_unlink)
>>>> Jul 11 20:24:25 server smbd[2480]:   Failed to delete pidfile
>>>> /var/run/samba4/smbd.pid. Error was No such file or directory
>>>> Jul 11 20:25:18 server smbd[2485]: [2014/07/11 20:25:18.037739, 0]
>>>> ../source3/printing/print_cups.c:151(cups_connect)
>>>> Jul 11 20:25:18 server smbd[2485]:   Unable to connect to CUPS
>>>> server localhost:631 - Bad file descriptor
>>>> Jul 11 20:25:18 server smbd[2484]: [2014/07/11 20:25:18.317527, 0]
>>>> ../source3/printing/print_cups.c:528(cups_async_callback)
>>>> Jul 11 20:25:18 server smbd[2484]:   failed to retrieve printer
>>>> list: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
>>>> Jul 11 20:26:18 server smbd[2487]: [2014/07/11 20:26:18.108999, 0]
>>>> ../source3/printing/print_cups.c:151(cups_connect)
>>>> Jul 11 20:26:18 server smbd[2487]:   Unable to connect to CUPS
>>>> server localhost:631 - Bad file descriptor
>>>> Jul 11 20:26:18 server smbd[2484]: [2014/07/11 20:26:18.109458, 0]
>>>> ../source3/printing/print_cups.c:528(cups_async_callback)
>>>> Jul 11 20:26:18 server smbd[2484]:   failed to retrieve printer
>>>> list: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
>>>>
>>>> could someone point me to a way to disable this
>>>> cheers
>>> If you set "printing = bsd" and have an
>>> empty printcap file that should do the
>>> trick I think.
>> Thanks, that solved to cups error messages, now I am getting the 
>> following
>> Jul 12 08:35:39 server smbd[1376]: [2014/07/12 08:35:39.636168, 0] 
>> ../lib/util/pidfile.c:153(pidfile_unlink)
>> Jul 12 08:35:39 server smbd[1376]:   Failed to delete pidfile 
>> /var/run/samba4/smbd.pid. Error was No such file or directory
>> Jul 12 08:35:39 server smbd[1377]: [2014/07/12 08:35:39.888389, 0] 
>> ../lib/util/pidfile.c:153(pidfile_unlink)
>> Jul 12 08:35:39 server smbd[1377]:   Failed to delete pidfile 
>> /var/run/samba4/smbd.pid. Error was No such file or directory
>> Jul 12 08:37:52 server smbd[1394]: [2014/07/12 08:37:52.124528, 0] 
>> ../lib/util/pidfile.c:153(pidfile_unlink)
>> Jul 12 08:37:52 server smbd[1394]:   Failed to delete pidfile 
>> /var/run/samba4/smbd.pid. Error was No such file or directory
>> Jul 12 08:37:52 server smbd[1395]: [2014/07/12 08:37:52.201422, 0] 
>> ../lib/util/pidfile.c:153(pidfile_unlink)
>> Jul 12 08:37:52 server smbd[1395]:   Failed to delete pidfile 
>> /var/run/samba4/smbd.pid. Error was No such file or directory
>>
>> now in /var/run/samba4 there is indeed no smbd.pid but there is an 
>> nmbd.pid
>> could this be related to another problem I have, I can access the 
>> share from macosx 10.9
>> and I am on the list of authorized users but I cannot copy anything 
>> into the share
>> osx tells me I cannot copy the item because I do not have permission 
>> to read it!
>> The same problem exists with trying to copy an item in from win7, I 
>> do not seem to have
>> the requisite permissions, yet the share is set to 0777
>> this is samba 4.0.19 on freebs
> Hi, can you please post your smb.conf
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from UNKNOWN (192.168.0.90)
# Date: 2014/07/12 07:13:50

[global]
         client max protocol = SMB2
         client min protocol = SMB2
         load printers = No
         show add printer wizard = No
         idmap config * : range =
         idmap config * : backend = tdb
         printing = bsd

[documents]
         path = /docs
         create mask = 0777
         directory mask = 0777
         valid users = rebecca, martin

and the directory itself
drwxrwxrwx   3 root  wheel          512 Jul 11 21:51 docs/

>
> Rowland
>
-- 
Martin



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