samba - Apr 2004 - Help! - need to Start multiple samba smbd/nmbd daemons

We're trying to dual home samba onto 2 windows domains.  We're created 2
separate smb.conf files each having it's own domain specific info. The only
differences between them are
- different workgroups
- different interfaces to bind too
- different socket addressees (matches the interface)
- and different WINS server IPs.

We are using the security = domain model.

We've successfully joined each domain by swapping in the applicable smb.conf
file and then running the smbpasswd command to join the domain .. both came back
successful.

Now we're trying to start the smbd and nmbd daemons by using the -s switch
to bind each daemon to a specific interface by pointing to the applicable
smb.conf file
(ie. /opt/samba/bin/nmbd -D -s /etc/opt/samba/smb.conf.engdev)  however it looks
like we can only start one smbd or nmbd daemon at a time as only one .pid lock
file is allowed.
Ref smbd log file output:
[2004/04/23 12:35:57, 0] smbd/server.c:(793)
  smbd version 2.2.8a based HP CIFS Server A.01.10 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002
[2004/04/23 12:35:57, 0] lib/pidfile.c:(85)
  ERROR: smbd is already running. File /var/opt/samba/locks/smbd.pid exists and
process id 25569 is running.

Is there a way to start multiple smbd/nmbd daemons so that we can multi-home
samba?

Any help appreciated
Regards
Norman Dignard

Nav Canada Technical Systems Center

My best guess is that you have the ability to set the lock directory for
the two different smbd/nmbd's, either within smb.conf, on the command
line, or either one. I don't know if you thought of this already, but
that's what it seems like to me. Check smb.conf's man page to see if
this
is possible.

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On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Dignard, Norman wrote:
> We're trying to dual home samba onto 2 windows domains.  We're
created 2 separate smb.conf files each having it's own domain specific info.
The only differences between them are
> - different workgroups
> - different interfaces to bind too
> - different socket addressees (matches the interface)
> - and different WINS server IPs.
>
> We are using the security = domain model.
>
> We've successfully joined each domain by swapping in the applicable
smb.conf file and then running the smbpasswd command to join the domain .. both
came back successful.
>
> Now we're trying to start the smbd and nmbd daemons by using the -s
switch to bind each daemon to a specific interface by pointing to the applicable
smb.conf file
> (ie. /opt/samba/bin/nmbd -D -s /etc/opt/samba/smb.conf.engdev)  however it
looks like we can only start one smbd or nmbd daemon at a time as only one .pid
lock file is allowed.
> Ref smbd log file output:
> [2004/04/23 12:35:57, 0] smbd/server.c:(793)
>   smbd version 2.2.8a based HP CIFS Server A.01.10 started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002
> [2004/04/23 12:35:57, 0] lib/pidfile.c:(85)
>   ERROR: smbd is already running. File /var/opt/samba/locks/smbd.pid exists
and process id 25569 is running.
>
> Is there a way to start multiple smbd/nmbd daemons so that we can
multi-home samba?
>
> Any help appreciated
> Regards
> Norman Dignard
>
> Nav Canada Technical Systems Center
>
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