Roberto Armenteros wrote: > Hi all, > SAMBA has stopped working in my computer and I > really dont know why. I am running mandrake 8.2. When > i type "service smb start", it says starting smb and > nmb services ok, but right after, if I type "service > smb status" it says "smbd is stopped and nmbd is > running". Why doesnt smbd start? I certainly dont have > any problem on my smb.conf file for it has been > working for years. I would appreciate if somebody > highlights some of the causes that could be > responsable for this. >
You have some log files, should be in /var/log/samba. Do these give you anymore information? How about /var/log/syslog? There should be some addional information. What you have posted here is just not enough to go by, especially if, like you have said, you are sure the smb.conf is good. You did run a "testparm" on it, right? Dr John
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