On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:28:32AM +0100, Fred F wrote: > 2012/11/29 Jelmer Vernooij <[email protected]>: > > smbd is packaged in the 'samba' package - it's an older version of it > > though. > Yeah. It does not work with samba4, though. If "samba" is installed > the samba daemon from samba4 starts up, but it is still useless, as it > uses smbd from samba3 which cannot authenticate any users (probably > because some AD/Kerberos support is missing in the old smbd binary). It doesn't necessarily use the smbd. The postinst script sets up Samba in a way that it uses the internal SMB server in the 'samba' binary rather than an external smbd.
> > > However, the Debian package sets up Samba4 in a way so that it doesn't > > need the smbd binary. What fails exactly - and what error message do you > > get? > Without samba3 installed I'm getting this: > > > # samba -i -M single > > samba version 4.0.0rc5 started. > > Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2012 > > samba: using 'single' process model > > /usr/sbin/smbd: Failed to exec child - No such file or directory > > file_server smbd daemon died with exit status 255 > > task_server_terminate: [smbd child process exited] How did you setup samba? Cheers, Jelmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

