Samba won't start

rbl · 2005-09-21 15:15:27

Hi,

well, simple as that.. I followed the Wiki and also tried a Kanotix samba-config script mentioned in the bbs, still:

$ /etc/rc.d/samba start
:: Starting Samba Server                      [FAIL]

:?
It's not like I set up exotic stuff in /etc/samba/smb.conf, I just want 2 public shared directories, one r and one rw.
Thanks for any help..

pressh · 2005-09-21 16:40:09

yes that's a problem. Use

/etc/rc.d/samba restart

instead. That should solve the problem. Probably a bug or something. Possibly you should run the above command twice if it fails the first time (that sometimes the case on my box)

rbl · 2005-09-21 19:07:07

no, it doesn't help. /etc/rc.d/samba restart fails no matter how often I run it

pressh · 2005-09-22 07:51:20

can you post your output you get in your log files

/var/log/samba/log.smbd
/var/log/samba/log.nmbd

rbl · 2005-09-22 10:51:48

$ cat /var/log/samba/log.smbd 
cat: /var/log/samba/log.smbd: No such file or directory

$ cat /var/log/samba/log.nmbd 
[2005/09/21 21:05:18, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(718)
  Netbios nameserver version 3.0.20 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2004
[2005/09/21 21:05:18, 0] param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(2536)
  Unknown parameter encountered: "character set"
[2005/09/21 21:05:18, 0] param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(3277)
  Ignoring unknown parameter "character set"
[2005/09/21 22:37:01, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(396)
  *****
  
  Samba name server ASPIRIN is now a local master browser for workgroup LAN.KRONE on subnet 192.168.0.160
  
  *****
[2005/09/22 01:26:09, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:terminate(58)
  Got SIGTERM: going down...
[2005/09/22 12:44:57, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(718)
  Netbios nameserver version 3.0.20 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2004
[2005/09/22 12:44:57, 0] param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(2536)
  Unknown parameter encountered: "character set"
[2005/09/22 12:44:57, 0] param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(3277)
  Ignoring unknown parameter "character set"

pressh · 2005-09-22 12:17:56

That doesn't help much further. One thing though is that you can remove the line with the character set from smb.conf as apparently this option is not recognized.

I assume you're trying to start the samba deamon as root as indiciated in the wiki? If so, maybe posting your smb.conf file will help finding the problem (if there is a mistype it could be impossible for the samba deamon to start)

rbl · 2005-09-22 12:56:01

Thanks for your ongoing support so far, pressh
At the moment my smb.conf looks like this.. simple, huh?

$ cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
#Global Parameters
 workgroup = LAN.KRONE
 netbios name = aspirin
 encrypt passwords = yes

[shared]
 path=/data/shared
 browseable = yes
 read only = yes
 public = yes
 writable = no

pressh · 2005-09-22 13:46:32

The official code for the global section should read

[global]

Don't think it makes any difference though.

Maybe the following command line commands give any usefull information (as root):

smbd -is
nmbd -is

rbl · 2005-09-22 21:03:33

yes, smbd -is gave some useful info! Here it is:

User nobody in passdb, but getpwnam() fails!

Yeah, nobody.. I userdel'ed that sucker 2 days ago because I wanted my lighttpd to run as user 'httpd'. So now I did a quick

useradd nobody

to get him back, and Samba is up and running!
Thanks a lot, pressh!

pressh · 2005-09-22 23:36:33

No problem

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Samba won't start

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