smb/nmb daemons not running
 

i have smbd and nmbd enabled during boot, and i watch them supposedly start during the boot process but then i access them in swat and they're not running. when the computer shuts down it warns me that they're not running.

when in swat i hit start, restart, or start all, they still don't run.

i initially thought this was a firewall issue but it occurs with the firewall off, too.

they used to run fine and although i couldn't see my suse box in xp net neighborhood i could at least see my xp on the suse.

now nothing's working and it seems arbitrary.

what can i do to get these running?

Can you just run nmbd and smbd manually? What output do you get?

What is the output of dmesg? If the daemons do in fact start during the boot process, it will be recorded there; it will also be recorded if they try to start and fail, or starts and then stops for some reason.

Does your network work otherwise? Can you ping the other computer?

Linux version 2.6.5-7.95-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linu
x)) #1 Thu Jul 1 15:23:45 UTC 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000003ec0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000003ec0000 - 0000000003ef8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000003ef8000 - 0000000003f00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
951MB vmalloc/ioremap area available.
0MB HIGHMEM available.
62MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 16064
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 11968 pages, LIFO batch:2
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 2000 and too old
You can enable it with acpi=force
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 desktop resume=/dev/hda2 splash=silent
bootsplash: silent mode.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 256 (order 8: 2048 bytes)
CKRM Initialization
...... Initializing ClassType<taskclass> ........
...... Initializing ClassType<socket_class> ........
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Detected 565.127 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
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Calibrating delay loop... 1114.11 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
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Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/2410] at 0000:00:1f.0
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
Initial HugeTLB pages allocated: 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
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ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
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FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize
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ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 07, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9300, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: CRD-8483B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
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hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: PC Speaker
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
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md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
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NET: Registered protocol family 20
Resume Machine: resuming from /dev/hda2
Resuming from device hda2
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md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
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VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
Unmounting old root
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Adding 498004k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:42 extents:1
ReiserFS: hda1: Removing [2648 59711 0x0 SD]..done
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ReiserFS: hda1: Removing [2648 59580 0x0 SD]..done
ReiserFS: hda1: Removing [2648 59572 0x0 SD]..done
ReiserFS: hda1: Removing [2648 59571 0x0 SD]..done
ReiserFS: hda1: Removing [2648 59570 0x0 SD]..done
ReiserFS: hda1: Removing [2648 59530 0x0 SD]..done
ReiserFS: hda1: Removing [2648 59511 0x0 SD]..done
ReiserFS: hda1: Removing [2648 59314 0x0 SD]..done
ReiserFS: hda1: Removing [2648 18662 0x0 SD]..done
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md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
subfs 0.9
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 0000:01:0a.0
eth0: Davicom DM9102 at pci0000:01:0a.0, 00:80:ad:08:ef:e6, irq 3.
NET: Registered protocol family 17
hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i810 E Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 26M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:1f.2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 9, io base 0000ef80
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
usb usb1: Product: UHCI Host Controller
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usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:1f.2
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
NET: Registered protocol family 10
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1f.3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49333 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs
hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core v2.0
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
SCSI subsystem initialized
st: Version 20040318, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
BIOS EDD facility v0.13 2004-Mar-09, 1 devices found
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A

no and no. my network used to work; well, one way - i couldn't ever see the linux machine from the xp.

i can try, and there doesn't seem to be any problem with it; they're just not running:

SUSEBOX:~ # smbd
SUSEBOX:~ # smbd start
SUSEBOX:~ # nmbd
SUSEBOX:~ # nmbd start
SUSEBOX:~ # /etc/init.d/smb start
Starting Samba SMB daemon done
SUSEBOX:~ # /etc/init.d/nmb start
Starting Samba NMB daemon - Warning: daemon already running. done

it warns me that nmbd is already started, yet in swat it tells me that it's not running.

dont know if it makes a difference on suse since im running slack-based distro but try;

# Killall smbd nmbd
# smbd -D
# nmbd -D

i use them as a "restart" on my samba just to put in here

If you can't ping the other computer, I don't see how Samba is supposed to connect to it.

Well, eth0 is there, in any case:
but I wonder if this might not be a problem:
(is there supposed to be an IPv6 router involved?)

and I also wonder why there is no message actually bringing eth0 up (which would certainly explain why the network doesn't work).

What is the output of ifconfig (as root)?

Since I have the exact same problem I thought I'd join....the samba daemons just won't start, not manually or via swat. I can ping localhost, I can ping my pc's name (galahad), and I can ping every IP adress in the network, but I can't connect to the workgroup or my wife's Win2K box when I use "guinevere" instead of her ipadress.

I followed every step in O'Reilly's book so my smb.conf is extremely simple, but should work. When I tried

smbclient -U% -L localhost

and that's when things went wrong:

Error connecting to 127.0.0.1 (Connection refused)
Connection to localhost failed

This is the output of ifconfig:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:76:96:38:EA
inet addr:192.168.123.103 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:76ff:fe96:38ea/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4822 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3218445 (3.0 Mb) TX bytes:627197 (612.4 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:3296 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3296 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:344549 (336.4 Kb) TX bytes:344549 (336.4 Kb)

San

Check the logs for errors. There should be a log for nmbd and smbd.

Celettu, you don't have quite the same problem, since you can ping, and skippuff54 can't, but your problem is easy to see.

127.0.0.1 is the loopback address to localhost (your own computer). The entire reason it exists is to give you a way to "connect" to your own computer on locally-run servers, like Webmin or Samba-Swat, without going through the network. So you might want to go into your /etc/hosts file and edit it so that in addition to localhost being listed at 127.0.0.1, it reads something like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost
<ip.address.of.guinevere> guinevere
<your.internal.ip.address> your_hostname

And are you sure that you set the workgroup name in /etc/samba/smb.conf to the same name as the one Windows is using? Is the Linux user trying to connect added to the authorised and known users by the Win2K administrator? Is the Linux user added and enabled (by root) to and in smbpasswd?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by motub

>127.0.0.1 is the loopback address to localhost (your own computer). The entire reason it exists is to >give you a way to "connect" to your own computer on locally-run servers, like Webmin or >Samba-Swat, without going through the network. So you might want to go into your /etc/hosts file and >edit it so that in addition to localhost being listed at 127.0.0.1, it reads something like this:

>127.0.0.1 localhost
><ip.address.of.guinevere> guinevere
><your.internal.ip.address> your_hostname

Did this, and that worked fine.

However, the samba daemons still don't want to start.

>And are you sure that you set the workgroup name in /etc/samba/smb.conf to the same name as the >one Windows is using?

Yes. CAMELOT. It's detected in Yast, and I can browse my wife's win2K box again. My own SuSe 9.1 doesn't show up in the Workgroup though....

> Is the Linux user trying to connect added to the authorised and known users by the Win2K administrator.

Yes, and I can even log in giving the username and passwords of other users on the Windows machine.

>Is the Linux user added and enabled (by root) to and in smbpasswd?

No. I don't know how to do this :)

San

edit: ping of xp machine successful. don't know what i was doing wrong the first time.

nope not at all.

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:08:EF:E6
inet addr:24.88.127.149 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
inet6 addr: fe80::280:adff:fe08:efe6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:567373 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3048 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:215 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:35242512 (33.6 Mb) TX bytes:467365 (456.4 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0xd800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1488 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1488 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:128065 (125.0 Kb) TX bytes:128065 (125.0 Kb)

SUSEBOX:~ # Killall smbd nmbd
bash: Killall: command not found
SUSEBOX:~ # smbd -D
SUSEBOX:~ # nmbd -D

nothing happens when i run the last two.

I think this is the problem, but how do I solve it?

galahad:/usr/sbin # testparm
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Processing section "[test]"
Loaded services file OK.
<b>ERROR: pid directory /var/run/samba does not exist</b>
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = CAMELOT
wins support = Yes

[test]
comment = For testing only, please
path = /home/San/test
read only = No
guest ok = Yes

San

same here:

SUSEBOX:~ # testparm
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Processing section "[homes]"
Processing section "[users]"
Processing section "[groups]"
Processing section "[pdf]"
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[print$]"
Processing section "[/shared]"
Loaded services file OK.
ERROR: pid directory /var/run/samba does not exist
Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_PDC
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

also wondering what i can do.