samba - Oct 2002 - nmb

I am having trouble starting my nmb.  I have tried to start it a number of
times.  I tried via swat, using the shell, and it is set up to automatically
start with smb.  It fails to shut down and start each time.  I'm very new at
this, and don't have the trouble-shooting skills yet.

Thanks,
Anna

I'm relatively new to this myself, but I had a similar problem where my wins
server was conflicting with my samba wins server.  As soon as I disabled
"Wins Support" in smb.conf I was able to restart NMB.  I'm
exploring the
specifics of Wins within Samba currently and hope to be able to enable this
in the future for my this subnet.

Ryan Mattfield
System Administrator
-----Original Message-----
From: Anna Varlese [mailto:anna@mail.georgetech.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:36 AM
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] nmb

I am having trouble starting my nmb.  I have tried to start it a number of
times.  I tried via swat, using the shell, and it is set up to automatically
start with smb.  It fails to shut down and start each time.  I'm very new at
this, and don't have the trouble-shooting skills yet.

Thanks,
Anna
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:35:54AM -0500, Anna Varlese
wrote:
> I am having trouble starting my nmb.  I have tried to start it a
> number of times.  I tried via swat, using the shell, and it is set up
> to automatically start with smb.  It fails to shut down and start each
> time.  I'm very new at this, and don't have the trouble-shooting
> skills yet.
First you have to answer: 
	You want to start samba as daemon?
	
	If you plan to start it as daemon, make sure that in your
	/etc/inet.conf is _no_ line to startup smbd/nmbd!

Second to answer:

	Is there a already running wins server in your lan?
	
	The samba doc told, that if you run an nt/w2k server, you have to use
	_this_ wins service.

	The nmbd of samba is able to communicate with them. Your smb.conf should
	have this entry:
	---schnipp---
		[global]
			wins server = ipadress_of_your_wins_server
	---schnapp---
	and everything should be ok.


	If your samba is the preferred  wins server, than you have to make
	this entries to your smb.conf:

	---schnipp---
		[global]
			wins support = yes
	---schnapp---

Both options exclude the other one!

Take a look in BROWSING.TXT of your samba setup.

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Frank Matthie?                                    fm+samba@Microdata-pos.de