Robert J. Rossana wrote: > I reported some problems with Samba in RC3. Basically it seems to die and I > am unable to access shares from within a VMware virtual hard drive (I also > tried from a WinXP machine on our net with the same result) using an smb.conf > file that has been fine in the past. The suggestion was made to uninstall > and then reinstall samba to see if that corrects the problem. I did that and > it does not correct the problem. Suggestions appreciated.
You missed the other reply. You don't mention if you are using the VMWare virtual network interfaces and various details regarding the setup (it's been a while since I've used vmware). I suspect you have VMware binding to some or all of the ports samba uses. Please just do: # service smb restart You should an error something like "Error binding to port 137" or so. You may be able to fix this by adding: interfaces = eth0 bind interfaces only = yes Then try restart samba again: # service smb restart Alternatively, your VMWare configuration might be wrong. Is Mandrake the hosted or the hosting OS (please, you are giving way too few details about your setup for anyone to help you)? in the global section of your smb.conf. I am quite sure this is not a samba bug or a packaging problem, I am using the current package with no problems on a number of servers, including a domain controller running 9.0rc2 in production. Buchan -- |----------------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
