I upgraded from samba 3.0.24*** to the following on my RHEL5 server...samba worked fine before the upgrade:

samba.x86_64 3.0.25b-1.el5_1.4 installed
samba-client.x86_64 3.0.25b-1.el5_1.4 installed
samba-common.x86_64 3.0.25b-1.el5_1.4 installed


I tried to use the old smb.conf file with no luck...smb and winbind would say: "winbindd dead but pid file exists" "smb dead but pid exists"

So, I figured I would just use the brand new smb.conf that the upgrade provided. I put the smb.conf in place, and I ran authentication manager via setup, and tried to join the my windows 2003 domain. The auth mgr seemed to populate my smb.conf file automatically. The smb and nmb services are fine, but the winbind service is dead: "winbindd dead but pid file exists"
The following message appears after authentication manager is run and it appears in the smbd and winbind logs too:

/usr/bin/net: relocation error: /usr/bin/net: symbol krb5_get_init_creds_opt_alloc, version krb5_3_MIT not defined in file libkrb5.so.3 with link time reference

I have tried removing samba and reinstalling to no avail. I have other RHEL5 servers running samba fine. Any help would be appreciated.

thanks

Samba depends on the Kerberos libraries, and needs to perform a Kerberos login ("kinit") perform carrying out the actual AD join. I'm not a C programmer, but that message implies to me that the Kerberos libraries aren't the correct version that Samba needs.

Probably the first thing to do is to make sure that you have all the available updates installed on the system. If you've got the latest Red Hat Kerberos packages then you probably need to check the RH BugZilla to see if there is a known problem.

thanks very much for your help...I will give that a try