On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:00:00AM +0100, Martin Leben wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: >> Please forward us the contents of your smb.conf.
> See below. (Stripped empty lines and comments.) > "interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 lo", because samba is only used through an SSH > tunnel. Erm, in this case there's no reason for nmbd to be running on your system at all and I'm not sure why it ever *started* successfully in the first place. nmbd will refuse to run when there are no broadcast interfaces present on the system, and lo is obviously not a broadcast interface. >> We should find a >> way for nmbd to shut down cleanly in that instance, and perhaps hook into >> /etc/network/if-up.d to restart it as needed, but we should first confirm >> that there isn't a misconfiguration in your particular smb.conf. > Yes, that seems reasonable. But I still can't understand why lo is down in > the first place, if your assumption is correct. It seems not; there have been various bug reports in the past of users having nmbd problems because of their interfaces not being continuously up, but with your settings this isn't the problem. > $ egrep -v "^(#|;|$)" /etc/samba/smb.conf > [global] > workgroup = smsbible > server string = %h server > dns proxy = no > interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 lo > bind interfaces only = true FWIW, listing both 127.0.0.0/8 and lo should be redundant; you should be able to just list 'interfaces = lo' and get the same results. - which results, as mentioned, include nmbd not working right. So given that you don't have a wins server specified, which would be the only other eason to have nmbd on, I'd suggest setting 'disable netbios = yes' in your smb.conf as a workaround that will stop nmbd from running, sparing you from any further mails. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
