samba won't start

djzanni · 01-18-2005, 08:39 AM

I'm trying to network my printer, which is on my linux mandrake 10 system, with a Win 2k machine on my home LAN.

Problem is that I can't get SAMBA to even start. When I run "samba start" I get an OK, but it fails when I try to run stop, and when I check the status, this is what I get.

smbd dead but pid file exists
nmbd (pid 2360) is running...

I also can't seem to use SWAT. I get nothing when I go to http://localhost:901

I checked the log file for samba (/var/log/samba/smbd.log) and this is what I get:

[2005/01/17 12:00:22, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(708)
bind failed on port 139 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0.
Error = Address already in use

Also, when I shut down the computer it always seems to fail to shut down SMB and NMB services.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

~daveZ

noeffred · 01-18-2005, 09:11 AM

Quote:

[2005/01/17 12:00:22, 0] lib/util_sock.c

pen_socket_in(708)
bind failed on port 139 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0.
Error = Address already in use

This means that you have some program already running on this port. Maybe you have a another Samba server already running or something like that. Just a suggestion.

djzanni · 01-18-2005, 11:35 AM

Hmmm... Well how do I find out what it is already running? You have a command up your sleave that I can use?
~daveZ

noeffred · 01-18-2005, 01:20 PM

sure

Give this a shot (just after a fresh boot for example)

Code:

ps -A | grep smb

if you get something like

Code:

 2493 ?        00:00:00 smbd
 2502 ?        00:00:00 smbd

you already have Samba running.

djzanni · 01-18-2005, 04:38 PM

You are a beautiful, beautiful man!

It works! It was VMware that was using it. So I mearly uninstalled VMware since I'm not using it and voila.

Thanks very much.

~daveZ