On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 03:31, Roger Keays wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anybody seen this message in their /var/log/syslog? > Nov 27 19:10:59 bilby inetd[31178]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 > Nov 27 19:10:59 bilby nmbd[3012]: connect from 192.168.0.6 > Nov 27 19:10:59 bilby inetd[31178]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 > Nov 27 19:10:59 bilby nmbd[3013]: connect from 192.168.0.6 > Nov 27 19:11:00 bilby inetd[31178]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 > Nov 27 19:11:00 bilby inetd[31178]: netbios-ns/udp server failing > looping), service terminated > > The message from tcpd is repeated many times. I am using Debian Woody, > and restarting samba or inetd has no effect on these messages. Samba > still seems to work correctly from the remote machine, but nmbd seems to > be returning an error!? > > The entry in /etc/inetd.conf looks like this: > .. > netbios-ns dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/nmbd -a
I get this occasionally. I've never been able to diagnose the problem short of nmbd going nuts and trying to spawn over 100-200 processes. Check your /var/log/samba/log.nmbd for anything usefull other than looping and failing stuff, maybe you'll get lucky and find out why it goes crazy. I can fix it with a killall nmbd followed by restarting inetd by an /etc/init.d/inetd restart has usually been sufficient to cure the symptoms but not the disease. Do you have a wins server assigned for your network? --mike
