Samba error: Permission denied

dmkang · 04-01-2005, 07:50 AM

I upgraded from Linux 9 to Linux Enterprise Server 4.0 after my network connections had been damaged from a bad shutdown. After upgrading I installed and configured Samba. Everything was working fine until I installed Tapeware backup. Now whenever I try to start Samba, I get the following error.

Failed to start Samba servers : /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start failed
Permission denied.

Any thoughts?

david_ross · 04-01-2005, 08:12 AM

Welcome to LQ.

Are you running the command as root?

dmkang · 04-01-2005, 08:16 AM

Thanks for the greeting. Yes, I'm running as root which is kind of strange.

david_ross · 04-01-2005, 08:19 AM

Can you post the output from:
ls -l /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb

dmkang · 04-01-2005, 08:23 AM

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2020 Mar 31 18:48 /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb

david_ross · 04-01-2005, 08:25 AM

You will need to make it execuable:
chmod 744 /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb

dmkang · 04-01-2005, 08:29 AM

very cool david! your insight fixed my problem as innocuous as it might have appeared.

Cheers.