[Samba] ERROR: Failed to open nmb broadcast socket

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Mon Oct 21 11:05:57 UTC 2019


On 21/10/2019 11:45, Gerard Seibert via samba wrote:
> Freebsd 12.0-RELEASE-p10
> samba 4.8.12
>
> Recently, my machine has started going into an endless loop with the
> following message rolling off the screen continuously:
>
>    nmbd_subnetdb:make_subnet()
>      Failed to open nmb bcast socket on interface 0.255.255.255 for port 137.  Error was Can't assign requested address
> [2019/10/21 05:46:50.980728,  0] ../source3/lib/util_sock.c:396(open_socket_in)
>    bind failed on port 137 socket_addr = 0.255.255.255.
>    Error = Can't assign requested address
> [2019/10/21 05:46:50.980841,  0] ../source3/nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:127(make_subnet)
>
> I am unable to regain control of the PC and am forced to do a manual
> shutdown and reboot.
>
> I have no idea how to debug this problem. I would appreciate any help
> available,
>
Can you post your smb.conf

Rowland





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