Have finished setting up Centos server with Samba (Version 3.0.10-1.4E.9). Its all working fine and getting authentication from the. But I can not get winbindd to start as a service. Have followed the recomendation from the samba doc and added it to the smbd startup script. Starting the service will start smbd and nmbd but not winbindd. I can run it manually by executing it from command line. Script as below:

start() {
KIND="SMB"
echo -n $"Starting $KIND services: "
daemon /usr/sbin/smbd $SMBDOPTIONS
RETVAL=$?
echo
KIND="NMB"
echo -n $"Starting $KIND services: "
daemon /usr/sbin/nmbd $NMBDOPTIONS
RETVAL2=$?
echo
KIND="Winbind"
echo -n $"Starting $KIND services: "
daemon /usr/sbin/winbindd -B
RETVAL3=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 -a $RETVAL2 -eq 0 -a $RETVAL3 -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/smb || \
RETVAL=1
return $RETVAL
}

Can't see why it will not execute as a service. Has anyone come across something like this who's able to tell me something that I have done wrong.

Thanks

CS

If you have CentOS installed you don't need to start it from the smb script. Depending on the version of CentOS (4.x has it for sure) you can click on Main Menu -> system settings -> server settings -> services then scroll down to winbind, click the check box, then save your changes. Winbind should start automatically now. Also, you would have to remove all the changes you made to /etc/init.d/smb.

Thanks for the info dvlshlof. Unfortunately I can't do that as I don't seem to find it in the service configuration. I haev tried adding it as a service but get error as "No such file or directory". I still can launch winbindd ferom command prompt.
Cheers
CS

ok. I have added the winbind service in the init.d and starting it still does not start winbindd. It says the service has started but I can't see the process when I do a "pgrep winbindd"

CS

try doing a pgrep winbind don't include the second d. Also, if it is running you should be able to do a
wbinfo -u or wbinfo -g. Also, wbinfo --get-domain-info=YOURDOMAIN should also work, if you have joined the computer to the domain with net rpc join -S DOMAINCONTROLLER -U userauthorizedtojoincomputerstodomain

hi dvishloff
I can only do those commands once I have executed "winbindd" from command line. Executing as a service does not seem to work and also the service doesn't start even after joining the server to the domain.
Thanks
CS

What version of CentOS are you using?