On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 14:43 -0400, Eric Evans wrote: > >---- > >couldn't start nmbd because nmbd is already running...you probably need > >to fix that. > > Yes I'm not sure where that's coming from but I should fix that. > > >I don't know about your smb.conf socket address = > > > >I don't ever use that. > > Looking back over my smb.conf, I'm not sure why I put that in there back > when I first set up Samba for our lab. Maybe at the time I thought it was > a desirable option for some reason, but from what I read in the > documentation now it seems that this option is only useful for multi-homed > machines, which we don't have. > > Well I finally got the thing to work! At least on the one client that I've > tried it on so far. What I did was to delete the socket address command > from the smb.conf, and add 'wins server = 128.152.175.155'. ---- It's so clear in black and white in the documentation - why do you continue to fail to read the documentation...
" This line must not be set in the smb.conf file of the Samba server acting as the WINS server itself. If you set both the wins support = yes option and the wins server = <name> option then nmbd will fail to start. " http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#id2554593 is this a Cornell thing? Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba