nmbd

[OliverW]

I have this strange problem. I've been running samba for a while now, and now all of a sudden nmbd crashes (I can't see that but I think so).

I'm using Swat and when I hit the button to start or restart the sucker nothing happens.

How can I get it going again??

[Taizong]

Make sure your system doesn't have the same name as another host. Is it set to be the master browser? Is anything else crashing with nmbd?

[scanez]

I had that problem in Debian Sid. And when I would try to restart samba

/etc/init.d/samba restart

it would complain about not finding a pid for nmbd. So I started nmbd manually

/usr/sbin/nmbd -D start

and all is good after that.

Hope this helps
SC