adamantium
June 27th, 2006, 01:54 PM
All right, I'm running Slackware V10.2 and I have it networked with a few Windows machines via Samba. It was running fine and I was just setting up users and stuff, and when one user refused to work, I decided to hit the "Restart" button next to the smbd daemon in the SWAT interface. When the page reloaded, the status showed "not running". I simply figured that it was taking a bit to restart, so I left it alone. I came back a little later and it's still not running, so I click the "Start" button. Still not running. I went into a terminal and tried to get it running manually from there. Wouldn't work. I even tried restarting the whole samba suite, via rc.samba; nmbd will come back up just fine, but smbd still refuses to run. I restarted the machine as a last resort, and it still won't run. Any ideas?
EDIT:
Fixed my problem, and if anyone cares to know, here's how:
I pulled up the log file for Samba (probably would have been a good idea before making a thread, but eh, sometimes I don't think) and it told me that it couldn't find the password for one of the users I set up in SWAT in its password database. Even though it seems odd that this would make it unable to run, that must have been what it was, because I went it, created the password, and now it runs fine.
EDIT:
Fixed my problem, and if anyone cares to know, here's how:
I pulled up the log file for Samba (probably would have been a good idea before making a thread, but eh, sometimes I don't think) and it told me that it couldn't find the password for one of the users I set up in SWAT in its password database. Even though it seems odd that this would make it unable to run, that must have been what it was, because I went it, created the password, and now it runs fine.