On Monday 23 September 2002 12:16 pm, you wrote: I did try service smb restart - makes no difference. When I get home later I will try your suggestion to reinstall the smb server.
Bob > 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 -- **************************************************************** Robert J. Rossana E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics, 2074 F/AB, Wayne State University, Detroit MI 48202 Web Page: www.econ.wayne.edu/~rossana Telephone: (313) 577-3760 Fax: (313) 577-0149 ****************************************************************
