hello, i have been trying to get this right.. but i cannot find the solution for myself

problem:
samba quit working after win7
I'm new-ish to linux(not using ubuntu tho, but servers)
i don't know what PID is..


i just installed a new ubuntu server of an old computer, for file sharing in workgroup with samba, and a little apache server running
webmin is also running, giving me an error when restarting samba


all worked very well untill i used win7 to access the \\server
this blog post have a fix for vista\7? connecting to samba, but wont fix my problem

after i connected to the share with win7 nothing seems to work


restart wont work, neither do reboot the server. I am clueless

some of my research is pointing me to /var/run/ and there is no smbd.pid there, not in any folder (nmbd.pid exist)

i cant figure this out my self, so any help would be appreciated
hitting f5 for this post and still googling around
..and sorry for my bad english





i found something
# service samba reload
* Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf smbd only
No process in pidfile `/var/run/samba/smbd.pid' found running; none killed.
[ OK ]


i dont have any smbd.pid in the samba dir, should i create a new one.. and where do i get the PID -id that should be inside? if this helps =)





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i did reformat the server, finding no sollution to this problem
since the prosess itself was missing it was a big screwup..
solved?

The PID is the process id and it's what ever number the process is running under if its running. The fact that you don't have a pid in the correct directory is probably indicative that it's not running (or failed to shutdown.)

You can verify this by typing:

ps uax | grep smb
kill -9 processid (if applicable)

It sounds unlikely that the process is starting up or alternately that your config is setup to put the pid in another directory.

you can try finding it by this

Now THAT'S funny!

i agree with him, Jesus would read the freaking manual. (and probably can easily code in lisp).