On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 04:42, et wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2003 07:35 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > > James Sparenberg wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 02:51, Buchan Milne wrote: > > >>Probably a misconfigured samba and the fact that we start/stop smbd and > > >>nmbd together. So, /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stops smbd, tries to stop nmbd > > >>and fails (was not running or had a name conflict or something like > > >>that), and since both killprocs did not succeed, it does not remove the > > >>lock file, so it is run again. > > > > > > this is the hard part. Since I'm in a shutdown situation how do I check > > > to see if the lockfile is getting removed or not. > > > > What happens if you stop samba manually? Or if you init 1? > > > > >>I guess we should put a check in to see if nmbd and smbd are really > > >>running, but it may be better to leave the error so the user knows they > > >>have something to fix? > > > > > > This is the thing... what is the fix. Samba is working quite well so > > > I'm pretty sure the config is good. (printing shares etc are solid.) I > > > really don't do much more than use samba to print on a windows box at > > > home. > > > > Weird ... will have to bounce a few machines to test, but I do not > > remember seeing this ... > > > > Buchan > on one of the mail lists this was worked thru and I believe it had to do with > the persistant mount point started by some other GUI like Gnomba or > linneighborhood.
Not using either one of those but I'll look into it and see if I can find something. >
