Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 21:55:50 -0600 (MDT) From: Jonathon Doran <doranj@Colorado.EDU> To: huppe@execpc.com (Len Huppe) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nmbd won't run Message-ID: <199907020355.VAA24632@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> In-Reply-To: <377C3696.C07B8333@execpc.com> from "Len Huppe" at Jul 1, 99 10:48:38 pm
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> If I go to a command line and try to launch it there, I get no response > from it. There are no error messages or anything at all. The command > that I'm using is nmbd -D. I also tried using swat but it keeps telling > me that nmbd is not running. Does "ps" say that nmbd is running? What are the contents of /var/log/log.nmb? > I even went as far as to remove the Samba package with sysinstall, and > then reinstall it from the source tarball. I have five years experience > with Linux, and I have installed a pretty good number of tarballs during > that time. I'm sure that I did it right. Installing a tarball isn't the same as configuring the program however. > I'm know that there's a perfectly logical reason why this in not > working. Being new to both FreeBSD and Samba, I don't always know where > to look for possible configuration problems. Samba logs a lot of useful info in /var/log/smb.log and /var/log/nmb.log, these are where we start the troubleshooting. Let us know what is being logged there, and we can probably figure out what is wrong. Jon Doran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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