I'm CC'ing samba@samba.org because other people might have better
ideas.
["Loic Mahe'" <mahe@twam.com>]> Can't creare or use IPC area. Error was File exists.
> ERROR : Failed to initialise share modes.
[...]> So, I followed what you proposed : stop samba, type ipcs and use
> ipcrm to remove the shared memory segment. But the problem is that
> ipcs doesn't list any shared memory segment after samba has stopped !
> If I restart samba, smbstatus works well as long as nobody is
> connected but the problem is the same once a file is opened.
I have never used Mandrake, so I don't know if it could be a
Mandrake-specific problem or not.
One thing you could try is to recompile Samba without SysV IPC support.
There isn't a 'configure' option for this, unfortunately. After you
run 'configure', edit "include/config.h" and change the
#define HAVE_SYSV_IPC 1
to
#undef HAVE_SYSV_IPC
and then compile. It should use an alternative method, "shared mmap",
which might work better for you.
Peter