CentOS - May 2014 - Samba problem

Hello,

My only hard drive failed on a private server so I had to replace it and 
reinstall Centos 6.5 and Samba.
My smb.conf file is OK according to "testparm".
I configured smb and nmb, with chkconfig, to start when the system boots.

After the system boots if I do "service nmb status" I get the response
"nmbd dead but pid file exists".
I can delete the pid file manually and start nmb with "service nmb
start".
The problem is that when the system shuts down and restarts I still find 
that "nmbd dead but pid file exists".

Any suggestions on how to fix the problem would be much appreciated.

Thank you,
Joe

Em 12-05-2014 18:33, Joseph Hesse escreveu:
> Hello,
>
> My only hard drive failed on a private server so I had to replace it and
> reinstall Centos 6.5 and Samba.
> My smb.conf file is OK according to "testparm".
> I configured smb and nmb, with chkconfig, to start when the system boots.
>
> After the system boots if I do "service nmb status" I get the
response
> "nmbd dead but pid file exists".
> I can delete the pid file manually and start nmb with "service nmb
start".
> The problem is that when the system shuts down and restarts I still find
> that "nmbd dead but pid file exists".
>
> Any suggestions on how to fix the problem would be much appreciated.
Tried looking at samba logs at /var/log/samba/ or even /var/log/messages 
for related logs? Out in the blue is hard to guess how to fix because we 
don't know what's broken..

You may want to:
1. tail -f /var/log/samba/* /var/log/messages | less
2. service nmb restart
3. service nmb status
if it's dead again, check the tail output

Cheers,
Marcelo