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#1 2009-06-16 15:52:51

Alex G
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From: Germany
Registered: 2009-06-13
Posts: 2

:: Starting Samba Server [FAIL]

Hello,

First of all, I have already posted this issue on the German Arch Linux board, but noone could actually help me with this problem.
It seems to happen rarely, I have googled for the error, the only real result said something like "I have reinstalled Fedora and the problem was gone."
As you can imagine, this is not really the solution I was looking for ;)

So, here some information:
Just after the installation of Archlinux (32bit) itself was finished, I have installed samba through pacman.
But since I was lazy back then, I did not want to configure it and removed the package again, also with pacman.
Some time passed, now I had X installed, KDE, and so on, and I wanted to set up all those programms I needed.
I came to samba, installed it through pacman again, and there the issue starts:

[root@Anarchy ~]# /etc/rc.d/samba start
:: Starting Samba Server                       [FAIL]

The log.smbd tells me:

[2009/06/02 19:02:56, 0] smbd/server.c:main(1267)
smbd version 3.3.4 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009
[2009/06/02 19:02:56, 0] lib/messages_local.c:messaging_tdb_init(96)
ERROR: Failed to initialise messages database: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
[2009/06/02 19:02:56, 0] lib/messages.c:messaging_init(204)
messaging_tdb_init failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2009/06/02 19:02:56, 0] smbd/server.c:smbd_messaging_context(101)
Could not init smbd messaging context.

I did not really change much in my smb.conf file:

# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too
# many!) most of which are not shown in this example
#
# For a step to step guide on installing, configuring and using samba,
# read the Samba-HOWTO-Collection. This may be obtained from:
#  http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf
#
# Many working examples of smb.conf files can be found in the
# Samba-Guide which is generated daily and can be downloaded from:
#  http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf
#
# Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash)
# is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
# for commentry and a ; for parts of the config file that you
# may wish to enable
#
# NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command "testparm"
# to check that you have not made any basic syntactic errors.
#
#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]

# workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name, eg: MIDEARTH
workgroup = HOMENETZ

# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
server string = Samba_Anarchy

# Security mode. Defines in which mode Samba will operate. Possible
# values are share, user, server, domain and ads. Most people will want
# user level security. See the Samba-HOWTO-Collection for details.
security = user

# This option is important for security. It allows you to restrict
# connections to machines which are on your local network. The
# following example restricts access to two C class networks and
# the "loopback" interface. For more examples of the syntax see
# the smb.conf man page
;   hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127.

# If you want to automatically load your printer list rather
# than setting them up individually then you'll need this
load printers = yes

# you may wish to override the location of the printcap file
;   printcap name = /etc/printcap

# on SystemV system setting printcap name to lpstat should allow
# you to automatically obtain a printer list from the SystemV spool
# system
;   printcap name = lpstat

# It should not be necessary to specify the print system type unless
# it is non-standard. Currently supported print systems include:
# bsd, cups, sysv, plp, lprng, aix, hpux, qnx
;   printing = cups

# Uncomment this if you want a guest account, you must add this to /etc/passwd
# otherwise the user "nobody" is used
;  guest account = pcguest

# this tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
# that connects
log file = file:///var/log/samba/%25m.log

# Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb).
max log size = 50

# Use password server option only with security = server
# The argument list may include:
#   password server = My_PDC_Name [My_BDC_Name] [My_Next_BDC_Name]
# or to auto-locate the domain controller/s
#   password server = *
;   password server = <NT-Server-Name>

# Use the realm option only with security = ads
# Specifies the Active Directory realm the host is part of
;   realm = MY_REALM

# Backend to store user information in. New installations should
# use either tdbsam or ldapsam. smbpasswd is available for backwards
# compatibility. tdbsam requires no further configuration.
;   passdb backend = tdbsam

# Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration
# on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name
# of the machine that is connecting.
# Note: Consider carefully the location in the configuration file of
#       this line.  The included file is read at that point.
;   include = /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf.%m

# Configure Samba to use multiple interfaces
# If you have multiple network interfaces then you must list them
# here. See the man page for details.
;   interfaces = 192.168.12.2/24 192.168.13.2/24

# Browser Control Options:
# set local master to no if you don't want Samba to become a master
# browser on your network. Otherwise the normal election rules apply
;   local master = no

# OS Level determines the precedence of this server in master browser
# elections. The default value should be reasonable
;   os level = 33

# Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. This
# allows Samba to collate browse lists between subnets. Don't use this
# if you already have a Windows NT domain controller doing this job
;   domain master = yes

# Preferred Master causes Samba to force a local browser election on startup
# and gives it a slightly higher chance of winning the election
;   preferred master = yes

# Enable this if you want Samba to be a domain logon server for
# Windows95 workstations.
;   domain logons = yes

# if you enable domain logons then you may want a per-machine or
# per user logon script
# run a specific logon batch file per workstation (machine)
;   logon script = %m.bat
# run a specific logon batch file per username
;   logon script = %U.bat

# Where to store roving profiles (only for Win95 and WinNT)
#        %L substitutes for this servers netbios name, %U is username
#        You must uncomment the [Profiles] share below
;   logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U

# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable it's WINS Server
;   wins support = yes

# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client
#    Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both
;   wins server = w.x.y.z

# WINS Proxy - Tells Samba to answer name resolution queries on
# behalf of a non WINS capable client, for this to work there must be
# at least one    WINS Server on the network. The default is NO.
;   wins proxy = yes

# DNS Proxy - tells Samba whether or not to try to resolve NetBIOS names
# via DNS nslookups. The default is NO.
dns proxy = no
restrict anonymous = no
domain master = no
logon home = %5C%5C%25N%5C%25U
smb passwd file = file:///etc/samba/private/smbpasswd
pid directory = file:///var/run/samba
logon path = %5C%5C%25N%5C%25U%5Cprofile
lock directory = file:///var/cache/samba
private dir = file:///etc/samba/private

# These scripts are used on a domain controller or stand-alone
# machine to add or delete corresponding unix accounts
;  add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd %u
;  add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g
;  add machine script = /usr/sbin/adduser -n -g machines -c Machine -d /dev/null -s /bin/false %u
;  delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel %u
;  delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/deluser %u %g
;  delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g


#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
read only = no

# Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons
; [netlogon]
;   comment = Network Logon Service
;   path = /usr/local/samba/lib/netlogon
;   guest ok = yes
;   writable = no
;   share modes = no


# Un-comment the following to provide a specific roving profile share
# the default is to use the user's home directory
;[Profiles]
;    path = /usr/local/samba/profiles
;    browseable = no
;    guest ok = yes


# NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to
# specifically define each individual printer
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
guest ok = no
printable = yes

Here some solutions / tests I have tried so far:

testparm gave me the following results:

[root@Anarchy ~]# testparm -s
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Processing section "[homes]"
Processing section "[printers]"
Loaded services file OK.
ERROR: lock directory file:///var/cache/samba does not exist
ERROR: pid directory file:///var/run/samba does not exist
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
[global]
        workgroup = HOMENETZ
        server string = Samba_Anarchy
        smb passwd file = file:///etc/samba/private/smbpasswd
        private dir = file:///etc/samba/private
        log file = file:///var/log/samba/%25m.log
        max log size = 50
        logon path = %5C%5C%25N%5C%25U%5Cprofile
        logon home = %5C%5C%25N%5C%25U
        domain master = No
        dns proxy = No
        lock directory = file:///var/cache/samba
        pid directory = file:///var/run/samba

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        read only = No
        browseable = No

[printers]
        comment = All Printers
        path = /var/spool/samba
        printable = Yes
        browseable = No

Those 2 errors seem weird to me, since the directories both exist:
/var/cache/samba
/var/run/samba (this one is empty)

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2. Mai 16:37 samba
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 27. Mai 20:09 samba

I have also tried uninstalling the package and reinstalling it with pacman again (I actually cleared the pacman cache before), but that did not help.
Later I thought, there would maybe be some old files left, so I uninstalled it, did "locate samba" and deleted every file that could be related to the programm.
After reinstalling again, I had the following error:

/usr/sbin/smbd: error while loading shared libraries: libtalloc.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/nmbd: error while loading shared libraries: libtalloc.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I had to recover the old, deleted (recycle bin) files and add "/usr/lib/samba" to /etc/ld.so.conf, so the new errors were gone, but the old one still exists...

I hope, someone can help me with this issue.

(Sorry for the long post :P
And I hope, I'm in the correct category...)

Last edited by Alex G (2009-06-16 16:07:51)

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#2 2009-12-25 05:08:40

zhiwen
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Registered: 2007-11-10
Posts: 12

Re: :: Starting Samba Server [FAIL]

I encounter the same issue. I my case, locks directory (/var/locks) not exist, you can use strace smbd to track down.

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#3 2009-12-28 23:37:03

CasparV
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Registered: 2009-12-28
Posts: 2
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Re: :: Starting Samba Server [FAIL]

Samba can't handle the "file://" naming scheme. If you remove this and just leave "/var/cache/samba" and "/var/run/samba" etc, this will work. Maybe it will solve your problem.

Otherwise, can you get more information from the log files? Or maybe start nmbd and smbd manually?

# cat /var/log/samba/log.smbd
# cat /var/log/samba/log.nmbd

# /usr/sbin/smbd
# /usr/sbin/nmbd

Btw, what are all the strange "%5C%5C%25N%5C%25U" etc. in your config?

Also, when reinstalling samba, have you also reinstalled the config file? When uninstalling, you can remove config with "pacman -Rn". This will make sure you will always have a clean and new configuration.

pacman -Rn samba
pacman -Sy samba

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