Run netstat-a | more
and make sure the port smbd wants to use is NOT in use by some other process. Just something to check. Also, check syslog for log messages from smbd. Ports 137-139 are the ports you're interested in, I believe. Peace.... Tom "Dan Tappin" <dan.tappin@orourk To: "Joel Hammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> e-eng.com> cc: Sent by: Subject: RE: [Samba] Desperate Help Required Getting SAMBA back on samba-admin@lists. line samba.org 12/19/02 02:19 PM "Our mission is to help our clients achieve more cost-effective data center operations." I am looking at it right now... the problem is that smbd will not even start. I have tried re-installing and nothing is working. I try starting smbd -d from the command line and I get no feed back and SAMBA does not start. It is not even logging at all. I must have really messed things up. Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Joel Hammer > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 3:11 PM > To: Dan Tappin; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Samba] Desperate Help Required Getting SAMBA back on line > > > For starters, I would find the file DIAGNOSIS.txt and walk through > it. It is a very good trouble shooting guide. In my source distribution, > it hangs out in /docs/text. > > Joel > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 02:04:09PM -0700, Dan Tappin wrote: > > I am running SAMBA on Red Hat 7.0 and after a bad upgrade my > SAMBA server is dead. I > > ended up re-installing from the source and now my server is not > accessible to our Win9x > > clients. smbstatus show the server running but no one on the > network can see the server. > > > > I am still a bit of a newbie and I am having trouble > troubleshooting this. I really am in > > a jam and I need some help ASAP. > > > > I am not sure where to start. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dan > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba