Well I mucked up something and I can't start or stop Samba. I get the following messages:

Executing /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start ..
/bin/sh: line 1: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb: Permission denied


Executing /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop ..
/bin/sh: line 1: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb: Permission denied

I am using WebMin to control the machine remotely and looking at SMB in the Bootup section it reports that it's running status is unknown.

WebMin appears to run the following to start/stop SMB:
#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: - 91 35
# description: Starts and stops the Samba smbd and nmbd daemons \
# used to provide SMB network services.
#
# pidfile: /var/run/samba/smbd.pid
# pidfile: /var/run/samba/nmbd.pid
# config: /etc/samba/smb.conf


# Source function library.
if [ -f /etc/init.d/functions ] ; then
. /etc/init.d/functions
elif [ -f /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions ] ; then
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
else
exit 0
fi

# Avoid using root's TMPDIR
unset TMPDIR

# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/samba ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/samba
fi

# Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0

# Check that smb.conf exists.
[ -f /etc/samba/smb.conf ] || exit 0

RETVAL=0


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

stop() {
KIND="SMB"
echo -n $"Shutting down $KIND services: "
killproc smbd
RETVAL=$?
echo
KIND="NMB"
echo -n $"Shutting down $KIND services: "
killproc nmbd
RETVAL2=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 -a $RETVAL2 -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/smb
echo ""
return $RETVAL
}

restart() {
stop
start
}

reload() {
echo -n $"Reloading smb.conf file: "
killproc smbd -HUP
RETVAL=$?
echo
return $RETVAL
}

rhstatus() {
status smbd
status nmbd
}


# Allow status as non-root.
if [ "$1" = status ]; then
rhstatus
exit $?
fi

# Check that we can write to it... so non-root users stop here
[ -w /etc/samba/smb.conf ] || exit 0



case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
restart
;;
reload)
reload
;;
status)
rhstatus
;;
condrestart)
[ -f /var/lock/subsys/smb ] && restart || :
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|status|condrestart}"
exit 1
esac

exit $?

Any suggestions where to start to debug?
Thanks.

I don't run SMB. But most of the init scripts need to be run as root. So if you have some GUI interface you're using as a non-root user, then it either uses some setuid program to run the init script, or it uses sudo to run the script...

But really, I'd expect Samba to start a boot -- it's probably just a matter of dropping to a shell and doing a "sudo /etc/init.d/smb start". And perhaps figuring out why smb didn't start on your last boot.

-c