As a newbie to samba, I am not able to get running a simple configuration (taken from howto). - The unix machine has a user calld ah. I also set a password with smbpasswd to ah - I had to add the line "interfaces = vlan472", because otherwise I got following error while trying to start smbd: ERROR: Could not determine network interfaces, you must use a interfaces config line Here some further information: serv-2-7-176:/var/log/samba# uname -a Linux serv-2-7-176.lycos-vds.com 2.6.14.3-vs2.0.1 #1 SMP Thu Jan 19 11:34:26 CET 2006 i686 GNU/Linux ------------------------------------------------ serv-2-7-176:/var/log/samba# testparm -V Version 3.0.22 ------------------------------------------------ serv-2-7-176:/var/log/samba# ifconfig vlan472 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:22:12:A5:C1 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1231594502 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1011724256 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3013814009 (2.8 GiB) TX bytes:2410395788 (2.2 GiB) ------------------------------------------------ serv-2-7-176:/var/log/samba# testparm -s Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section "[homes]" Loaded services file OK. WARNING: passdb expand explicit = yes is deprecated Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE [global] workgroup = MIDEARTH interfaces = vlan472 [homes] read only = No ------------------------------------------------ serv-2-7-176:/var/log/samba# ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.1 1584 384 ? S Jun01 0:00 init [2] root 32586 0.0 0.1 1956 480 ? Ss Jun01 0:00 /sbin/syslog-ng root 445 0.0 0.1 1640 496 ? Ss Jun01 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd daemon 477 0.0 0.1 1828 268 ? Ss Jun01 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd root 500 0.0 0.2 1884 584 ? Ss Jun01 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron root 27195 0.0 0.1 1920 508 ? Ss Jun01 0:00 /sbin/syslog-ng -p /var/run/syslog-ng.pid Debian- 29717 0.0 0.2 4480 736 ? Ss Jun01 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m root 19409 0.0 0.7 6412 1928 ? S 19:38 0:00 sshd: root@pts/74 root 20108 0.0 0.5 2636 1368 pts/74 Ss 19:38 0:00 -bash root 29513 0.0 0.5 5644 1508 ? Ss 20:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D root 29551 0.0 0.8 8396 2248 ? Ss 20:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D root 29564 0.0 0.3 8396 916 ? S 20:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D root 15545 0.0 0.3 2568 848 pts/74 R+ 20:38 0:00 ps aux ------------------------------------------------ serv-2-7-176:/var/log/samba# netstat -tulpen Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State User Inode PID/Program name tcp 0 0 84.244.7.176:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 0 1353177061 29551/smbd tcp 0 0 84.244.7.176:10002 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 0 1254111219 445/inetd tcp 0 0 84.244.7.176:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 0 1346555680 445/inetd tcp 0 0 84.244.7.176:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 0 1254529424 29717/exim4 tcp 0 0 84.244.7.176:445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 0 1353177060 29551/smbd udp 0 0 84.244.7.176:137 0.0.0.0:* 0 1353176867 29513/nmbd udp 0 0 84.244.7.176:138 0.0.0.0:* 0 1353176868 29513/nmbd ------------------------------------------------ serv-2-7-176:/var/log/samba# smbclient -L localhost WARNING: no network interfaces found tdb(/var/run/samba/gencache.tdb): tdb_oob len -1111597610 beyond eof at 49152 tdb(/var/run/samba/gencache.tdb): tdb_free: left read failed at 3183369662 (1111638594) tdb(/var/run/samba/gencache.tdb): rec_read bad magic 0xd9fee666 at offset=40960 tdb(/var/run/samba/gencache.tdb): rec_read bad magic 0xd9fee666 at offset=40960 Password: Anonymous login successful Domain=[MIDEARTH] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.22] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- ADMIN$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.22) IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.22) homes Disk tdb(/var/run/samba/gencache.tdb): tdb_oob len -1111597610 beyond eof at 49152 tdb(/var/run/samba/gencache.tdb): tdb_free: left read failed at 3183369662 (1111638594) tdb(/var/run/samba/gencache.tdb): rec_read bad magic 0xd9fee666 at offset=40960 tdb(/var/run/samba/gencache.tdb): rec_read bad magic 0xd9fee666 at offset=40960 Anonymous login successful Domain=[MIDEARTH] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.22] Server Comment --------- ------- Workgroup Master --------- ------- ------------------------------------------------ serv-2-7-176:/var/log/samba# smbclient //localhost/ah WARNING: no network interfaces found tdb(/var/run/samba/gencache.tdb): tdb_oob len -1111597610 beyond eof at 49152 tdb(/var/run/samba/gencache.tdb): tdb_free: left read failed at 3183369662 (1111638594) tdb(/var/run/samba/gencache.tdb): rec_read bad magic 0xd9fee666 at offset=40960 tdb(/var/run/samba/gencache.tdb): rec_read bad magic 0xd9fee666 at offset=40960 Password: session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE ------------------------------------------------ Why do I get this error messages? Why I am not able to connect with smbclient? I try to run samba on a virtual server. Could this cause this problems? Armin