I've upgraded to the latest samba version available and now I get the following error message when starting the smb deamon.

First it seems that smbd and nmbd are starting ok. But when I ask the status it says that smbd is DEAD.

When I look at the log file, I know WHY:

[2005/08/10 00:45:42, 0] groupdb/mapping.c:init_group_mapping(134)
Failed to open group mapping database
[2005/08/10 00:45:42, 0] groupdb/mapping.c:get_group_map_from_gid(275)
failed to initialize group mapping
[2005/08/10 00:45:42, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.cop_sec_ctx(386)
pop_sec_ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 1
[2005/08/10 00:45:42, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.cop_sec_ctx(386)
pop_sec_ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
[2005/08/10 00:45:42, 0] lib/account_pol.c:init_account_policy(52)
Failed to open account policy database
[2005/08/10 00:45:42, 0] lib/account_pol.c:init_account_policy(52)
Failed to open account policy database
[2005/08/10 00:45:42, 0] lib/account_pol.c:init_account_policy(52)
Failed to open account policy database


FAILED TO OPEN ....
It seems that samba has no rights to these databases OR they don't exist !
How do I fix this ? Where are these located ?

Winbindd service won't start either (same DEAD error, when asking for status). But I think this has something to do with the smb service not running.

It seems that I'm not the only one with this fr*** problem.
Anyone a solution to this ?

Well, I've fixed the problem myself !!

This kept me busy for almost a week !
The only thing I needed to do was to DISABLE the SELinux security feature. This service kept all my config's from gooing wrong !

Everyting works now. VSFTPD, SAMBA, all of it !!

Can you f*** believe it ? Some stupid security feature.

You need to set the context of the smbpasswd and secrets.tdb files to samba_secrets_t and add samba_enable_home_dirs=1 to the booleans.local file. These changes plus the changes to the iptables will allow the smb service to start and users to connect to their home directories.