[nflug] samba wont start, fedora core 4, thinkpad x41

[Eric Benoit]

do you have the samba daemon starting at boot and yet another script to 
start samba at boot?

Mark Leffler wrote:
> HI, yes I do have a smb.conf. Edited by hand, also looked at it with the 
> GUI tool.
>  
> The problem is more basic - the daemon won't even start. I have 
> installed and configured samba many times previously and I have never 
> seen it give me a boot time error. I am thinking about re-installing the 
> samba rpms.
>  
> Networking otherwise is working, I can actually "connect to server," 
> choose windows share, plug in the right IP address & authentication & 
> get files off of a windows box.
>  
> -Mark
>  
> 
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Cyber Source <mailto:peter at thecybersource.com>
>     *To:* Mark Leffler <mailto:mleffler at adelphia.net> ; nflug at nflug.org
>     <mailto:nflug at nflug.org>
>     *Sent:* Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:10 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [nflug] samba wont start, fedora core 4, thinkpad x41
> 
>     Mark Leffler wrote:
> 
>>     Hi -
>>      
>>     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:
>>      
>>     Starting SMB Services: /etc/init.d/functions:     line 83: 2461
>>     aborted
>>      
>>     Any attempts to start smbd yield "failure".
>>      
>>     Everything else works pretty much (except wireless, but that's
>>     another note).
>>      
>>     Any suggestions welcome.
>>      
>>     Thanks,
>>     Mark
>>
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> 
>     You should verify that you actually have a /etc/samba/smb.conf file
>     and that it's configured properly.
> 
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