On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:41:30 +1100, Hanratty, Michael uttered
> My problem is this:
>
> Hardware P4, 512 ddr Distro Mandrake 9.2 Problem samba won't start,
> error reported in log file reads something like this- failed to bind
> to port 139, reason - port already in use
>
> Any suggestions
>
What is probably happening is that samba is being run out of the inet
superserver (inetd, or xinetd). If this is the case, inetd will run
smbd for you when you try and connect. If you prefer to run samba as
daemons (processes that run in the background - think TSR in DOS
days), you should edit the configuration file for inetd, and comment
out the nmbd and smbd lines, and reload inetd. Starting samba should
then work.
Cheers,
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