Nate, thanks for the suggestion; I am still in the dark; perhaps the following output will help shed some light
Criss results from running: smbclient -L devhost with debug level set to 3 in smb.conf doing parameter security = user doing parameter workgroup = BLINKYGROUP doing parameter server string = %h server (Samba %v) doing parameter syslog only = no doing parameter syslog = 0; doing parameter socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096 doing parameter encrypt passwords = yes doing parameter wins support = no doing parameter name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast doing parameter dns proxy = no doing parameter preserve case = yes doing parameter short preserve case = yes doing parameter unix password sync = false doing parameter passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u doing parameter passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n . doing parameter max log size = 1000 pm_process() returned Yes added interface ip=192.168.1.1 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Client started (version 2.0.7). resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name dev.blinky.name<0x20> resolve_hosts: Attempting host lookup for name dev.blinky.name<0x20> Connecting to 192.168.1.1 at port 139 read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Broken pipe. session request to DEV.BLINKY.NAME failed (code 0) resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name dev.blinky.name<0x20> resolve_hosts: Attempting host lookup for name dev.blinky.name<0x20> Connecting to 192.168.1.1 at port 139 read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Broken pipe. session request to DEV failed (code 0) resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name dev.blinky.name<0x20> resolve_hosts: Attempting host lookup for name dev.blinky.name<0x20> Connecting to 192.168.1.1 at port 139 read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Broken pipe. session request to *SMBSERVER failed (code 0) output from daemon.log: Mar 11 08:12:27 dev smbd[5079]: connect from dev.blinky.name Mar 11 08:12:27 dev smbd[5080]: connect from dev.blinky.name Mar 11 08:12:28 dev smbd[5081]: connect from dev.blinky.name ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nate Amsden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Agner-Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 7:31 PM Subject: Re: SAMBA not running > Agner-Nichols wrote: > > > > well, even when I do a: > > > > /usr/sbin/smbd -a > > > > I get no error, but smbd does not start (i.e., no smbd line with ps aux); > > that's why a took another look at the SMB howto and tried the inetd tactic > > increase the debug level and check the logs /var/log/daemon.log > /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog .. > > chances are its not configured correctly. > > nate > > -- > ::: > ICQ: 75132336 > http://www.aphroland.org/ > http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
