From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 30 15:39:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D33150B7 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:39:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mothra.ecs.csus.edu [130.86.76.220]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA54060; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:20:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37F3E217.AC2F0951@owp.csus.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:20:07 +0000 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Langa Kentane Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: samba problems, please intepret log file References: <008601bf0b82$7aebf000$33a8ef9b@sunnet.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Langa Kentane wrote: > > While trying to startup samba... this is what I got. > What do I do? > > [1997/05/12 23:23:47, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(671) > bind failed on port 139 socket_addr=0.0.0.0 (Address already in use) > I would guess that it tried to bind to port 139 and failed. If that's the case I would guess one of two problems, it tried to start as a user other than root or something is already bound to port 139. How are you trying to start samba? There are usually two methods, either from inetd ( see /etc/inetd.conf ) or as a daemon. -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message