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...amba crashing when a share access is attempted. However, I also notice that the nmbd daemon isn't being started up properly (though its startup script, through init.d, shows it as starting up OK). The error that is being shown in the logs is: [2006/09/28 20:06:35, 0] nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c:initialise_wins(580) initialise_wins: failed to open wins.tdb. Error was Permission denied Now I've tried to google for wins.tdb and can't find much on it, other than it should be located in /var/lib/samba (which it isn't). Any ideas for where it might have gone (I haven't deleted it in anywa...

...ual configuration and user migration which I need to figure out, the problem is that nmbd refuses to start with the following errors in the log: [2007/02/26 14:05:26, 0] lib/messages.c:message_init(127) ERROR: Failed to initialise messages database [2007/02/26 14:05:26, 0] nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c:initialise_wins(580) initialise_wins: failed to open wins.tdb. Error was Permission denied I've checked the permission on the locks directory, I've tried chowning, chmodding 777, nothing seems to fix this, and I can't figure out why. Here's relevant file stats: [root@srv-tux ~]# ls -al /etc/sa...

...s I can and these are my observations, hopefully they may be usefull to someone in the know. Machine - Debian Stable/Backports samba_3.0.0final-0 1). It appears that 'winsserver_init' is picking up the old IP from /var/lib/samba/wins.dat --- [2003/12/05 14:46:24, 4] nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c:initialise_wins(362) initialise_wins: add name: F-LAPTOP-SJG#20 ttl = 161432 first IP 192.168.213.12 flags = 44 --- "F-LAPTOP-SJG#00" 1070797025 192.168.213.12 44R "F-LAPTOP-SJG#20" 1070797016 192.168.213.12 44R --- 2). When the machine is plugged onto the network it introduces itself --- [20...

...34.10.31.255 Subnet mask:255.255.240.0 making subnet name:UNICAST_SUBNET Broadcast address:134.10.2.24 Subnet mask:134.10.2.24 making subnet name:REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET Broadcast address:0.0.0.0 Subnet mask:0.0.0.0 making subnet name:WINS_SERVER_SUBNET Broadcast address:0.0.0.0 Subnet mask:0.0.0.0 initialise_wins: Can't open wins database file /usr/local/samba/var/locks/wins.dat. Error was No such file or directory read socket failed. ERRNO=Connection refused become_domain_master_browser_wins: Attempting to become domain master browser on workgroup SERVERS, subnet UNICAST_SUBNET. become_domain_master_b...