Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote: > On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 16:42, Robert J. Rossana wrote: > >>I use Samba to mount local files to be used in WinXP in a VMware virtual hard >>drive. I use an smb.conf file that has always worked fine in the past but I >>find that in RC3 I cannot see the local files from WinXP. I get the >>following error message on shutdown. >> >>/etc/rc.d/K09smb: kill: (####) line 253: no such process > > do you run both the linux samba and the vmware samba? >
Ahh, smbd and nmbd don't have a chance to startup. Could you not have tested this (ie by running 'service smb status' or 'service smb restart'?) > in case yes check whether /etc/init.d/vmware is started before > /etc/init.d/smbd and reverse the order > > >>It appears that samba is not running or at least not functional. > > when i tried to start it manually it reported : > address already in use > I am not sure how the vmware vmnet stuff works, but you may be able to get samba to start up right (assuming vmware's stuff has only bound to the vmnet interface) by setting: interfaces = eth0 bind interfaces only = yes in the global section of /etc/samba/smb.conf -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
