Hi, im haveing some probs with my new gentoo install.

im haveing trouble getting samba to work correctly.


the situation is, that it seems as if the two daemons are startet - so im told by the terminal, but all signs point at they arent!

at boot, i get told, when init runs the scripts in /etc/runlevels/default (runlevel3) - that the samba script gets run and startet succesfully by:

samba -> start: smbd... [OK]
samba -> start: nmbd... [OK]

...
but when i later did
"smbclient -L localhost" (or 127.0.0.1)
..i got:
error connectiing (Connection reset by peer)

...
This narrowed it down to 2 options
1)either the daemons were not running
2)the ports where not activated / in "LISTIN"

but since the boot told me they were, i concluded it was the port for samba

...
okey, so i found out that i had no /etc/inetd/ !!!
and since i couldnt find it in portage-tree, i decided to go with "xinetd"
-
i added the following file:
/etc/xinet.d/netbios-nns

with the content of:
service netbios-ssn
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = yes
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/smbd
server_args = -D
disable = no
bind = 127.0.0.1
}


..and tried the command: netstat -a
which showed me that i had a TCP-port in listin state now!:

Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 *:swat *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 localhost.l:netbios-ssn *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:distcc *:* LISTEN
udp 0 0 localhost.lo:netbios-ns *:*
udp 0 0 *:bootpc *:*
Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established)

but is was still unable to get listed shares via ""smbclient -L localhost" (or 127.0.0.1)"
...

okey i now thought i would see what SWAT said to all of this, so i enabled swat by in the:

/etc/xinetd.d/swat
-----------------
service swat
{

port = 901
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/swat
log_on_failure += USERID
disable = no
only_from = localhost

}

...

i opened swat by "http ://127.0.0.1:901"

and saw to my surprise that smbd and nmbd were NOT running!
which made sense since the error by"smbclient -L localhost" could be caused by the daemon not running too!

::::

i have since tried restating my box, and samba services by "/etc/init.d/samba restart/start/stop"

ive made sure that xinetd also was running by doing the same.


Help?

You should generally not be running smbd/nmbd through xinetd. They can easily run as their own daemon processes. smbd and nmbd cannot run if xinetd is already bound to the port(s) in question.

oh, but i thought that xinetd, like opened the ports FOR samba?
and then swat wont work, will it?

okey, its up and running now, thanks !

i noticed that everytime i was shutting samba down i got:

samba -> stop: smbd ... [ !! ]
samba -> stop: nmbd ... [OK]

wired!... so i tried ps -e | grep smbd (after making sure that i had manually started it)
and the daemon was not in the PS list!

Then this is what i did:
-removed xinetd
-updated samba to newest version

..and now she works!

BUT there is one problem left now. since xinetd was the one making sure SWAT's port was open, i cant access swat because of no-open port ! - im pretty blank on how to dealing with this.

thanks in advance