[Samba] Samba Won't start after upgrading Operating system

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Sun Feb 24 13:36:31 UTC 2019



Am 24.02.19 um 07:53 schrieb Robert Steinmetz via samba:
> Thanks for the response. I think  found and fixed the problem, but I
> need to do some more testing tomorrow. It seems that the
> "handle_name_resolve_order: WARNING: Ignoring invalid list value
> 'hosts'  for parameter 'name resolve order'"
> is not really a warning and it causes testparm to stop processing the
> smb.conf. I think that is also what caused the daemons to fail.
> 
> As soon as I changed that everything started working.
> 
> I hope someone with more knowledge of samba looks into it to confirm
> that was what was really happening. If so the error message at least
> needs to be changed.

it was for sure that typo coming from a copy&paste error from idiotic
howtos with typos - on Fedora you had the isse samba no longer starting
with this typo years ago



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