[PLUG] Cannot Start /usr/sbin/smbd

Bill Ensley bill at bearprinting.com
Mon Jun 12 16:25:52 UTC 2006


I am currently working on the exact same problem.

nmdb starts fine, 
smbd no go

-Bill Ensley
Bear Printing 

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 9:23 AM
To: plug at pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Cannot Start /usr/sbin/smbd

   This is a new one for me: a process that will not start, but gives no
error messages or any other indication of a problem.

   We think the inability of my virtual win98 to communicate with the linux
network is a samba problem. Since I cannot get /usr/sbin/smbd to load and
run, that seems reasonable. Here are the details:

   1.) Running 'ps ax | grep smbd' returns nothing. Running 'ps ax | grep
nmbd' returns the PID.

   2.) Running '/etc/rc.d/rc.samba stop' reports, 'smbd: no process killed'.
Hmmm-m-m. Not good.

   3.) Running '/etc/rc.d/rc.samba start' reports, Starting Samba:
/usr/sbin/smbd -D
                  /usr/sbin/nmbd -D

But, there's no smbd in the process list.

   I checked which version of samba was installed, and it was
samba-3.0.20-i486-2 so I upgraded that to samba-3.0.20b-i486-2, the latest
available.

   Nothing changed in the above three steps.

   When I look at /var/log/messages I see:

Jun 12 08:56:41 salmo smbd[6202]: [2006/06/12 08:56:41, 0]
printing/pcap.c:pcap_cache_reload(149) 
Jun 12 08:56:41 salmo smbd[6202]:   Unable to open printcap file lpstat for
read! 
Jun 12 08:56:41 salmo smbd[6202]: [2006/06/12 08:56:41, 0]
printing/pcap.c:pcap_cache_reload(149) 
Jun 12 08:56:41 salmo smbd[6202]:   Unable to open printcap file lpstat for
!

   What printcap file is smbd seeking and not finding? There's nothing in
/etc/samba related to printing. /etc/printcap has perms 644 and works with
all other apps.

   What's to be done?

TIA,

Rich


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