Shane C Branch said: > [snip] > I get that they are part of the same script, and yes that does make > sense, but > only if they both start and stop when I direct smb to do so. For some > reason > nmbd is failing to stop. Because it sounds like it is failing to start. > I checked /var/log/samba, and the log.nmbd file records this error: > failed to open nmb socket on interface x.x.x.x for port 137. error was > cannot > assign requested address > > This machine has two eth cards, one for external traffic and one for > internal > traffic. An important piece of information that wasn't originally included. > The interal address does not appear in the log as part of the > error. Have you looked at the "interfaces" parameter in smb.conf? http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#INTERFACES > also: > > error: failed when creating subnet lists. exiting. > > There were a few messages in there claiming that nmbd successfully > started. In the future please post what the log says, not an interpretation of it. Something that may not seem important could be the key. [snip] -- William Hooper
