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Mark Leffler wrote:
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<div><font size="2">Hi -</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">I installed Fedora core 4 on an IBM thinkpad X41,
and am getting a weird samba error. SMB won't start. If I watch the
messages upon bootup, it gives me the following complaint:</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Starting SMB Services: /etc/init.d/functions:
line 83: 2461 aborted</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Any attempts to start smbd yield "failure". </font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Everything else works pretty much (except
wireless, but that's another note). </font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Any suggestions welcome.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Thanks,</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Mark</font></div>
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You should verify that you actually have a /etc/samba/smb.conf file and
that it's configured properly.<br>
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