Yes, you could run the server on a different port, but it would lose it's functionality - WINS is pre-set on windows machines and they will look on the default ports of nmbd.
Options : Get the programmer to not use other specified ports (see /etc/services and pick one of the unused ones) - these are standards he/she is breaking and should be convinced to change that - or Get his/her program to bind to one address only, and run with different IPs e.g. his software runs on the current IP say 10.0.0.1 and samba binds to 10.0.0.5 - or Don't use WINS and have problems looking up machine names on windows clients. Martyn Hope this helps At 08:59 AM 4/10/02 -0700, Jon Houg wrote: >Hi, > >I am using Samba 2.0.10 on a Red Hat 7.1 machine. When attempting to start >the 2 Samba background tasks - "smbd" and "nmbd", I get this error in the >"log.nmb" file: > > bind failed on port 137 socket_addr=0.0.0.0 (Address already in use) > >To make a long story short, I've determined that there is another process >from one of our own products using this same port 137. I've contacted the >Developer of this product and asked him if the port that this product uses, >can be changed. He said this cannot be done. So, my question to the Samba >community is, is there a way I can tell Samba either through the "smb.conf" >file or some other means, to use a port other than 137 and/or 139 to start >"nmbd" and successfully use Samba along with our own product on this same >machine? > >Thanks, > >============================================================================ >============= >Jon Houg >Peregrine Systems >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -------------- Martyn Ranyard I am not a member of the samba team, and anything that I say may not be as accurate as a response from one of the team. I reply to save those more qualified time, which can more usefully be spent developing SAMBA further. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
