samba won't start (Error: stopping services)

[TheEternalVortex]

I was using the Gentoo Samba guide, but when I try to start samba I get this error:

# /etc/init.d/samba start
* samba -> start: smbd... [ !! ]
* samba -> start: nmbd... [ ok ] * Error: stopping services (see system logs)
* samba -> stop: smbd... [ !! ]
* samba -> stop: nmbd... [ !! ]

I am using the configuration provided in the guide almost exactly (I just changed the workgroup name). What could be the problem?

[TheEternalVortex]

If I try running smbd and nmbd they start fine without errors, so I'm not sure why the rc scripts are complaining.

[groovin]

Error: stopping services (see system logs)

and what do the system logs say?

[Veldrin]

Same problem here...

my smbd log show this

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Kor ~ # tail /var/log/samba/log.smbd
[2005/03/26 16:48:19, 1] auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_sam(840)
  User samba, guest in passdb, but getpwnam() fails!
[2005/03/26 16:51:30, 0] smbd/server.c:main(760)
  smbd version 3.0.10 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2004
[2005/03/26 17:00:09, 0] smbd/server.c:main(798)
  smbd version 3.0.13 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2004
[2005/03/26 17:00:09, 1] auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_sam(840)
  User samba, guest in passdb, but getpwnam() fails!

Samba-3.0.10 works fine; newer versions (especially 3.0.12 and 3.0.13) wont!

[smeep2k4]

All you need to do is "adduser samba", and the servers start up fine. I should probably post a bug as well, as the user should have been added by portage (at least, that's what is seemed to do for clamav).

[mutrox]

I was foolish trying to guess what the hell was wrong with samba configuration until I saw that post , and then automagicaly all works the server starts and I was able to load the window drivers for cups.
Thanks a lot smeep2k4 you save my day:D

[parsim]

Same problem here! I believe it started after upgrading from to net-fs/samba-3.0.10 to net-fs/samba-3.0.14a-r2.

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# /etc/init.d/samba start
 * samba -> start: smbd ...                                               [ !! ]
 * samba -> start: nmbd ...                                               [ ok ]
 * Error: stopping services (see system logs)
 * samba -> stop: smbd ...                                                [ !! ]
 * samba -> stop: nmbd ...                                                [ !! ]

Nothing helpful in the system log (/var/log/messages):

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Aug  8 15:51:08 eve rc-scripts: Error: stopping services (see system logs)
Aug  8 15:51:08 eve nmbd[30175]: [2005/08/08 15:51:08, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:terminate(56)
Aug  8 15:51:08 eve nmbd[30175]:   Got SIGTERM: going down...

Nor in the Samba log (/var/log/samba/log.smdb):

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[2005/08/08 15:51:08, 0] smbd/server.c:main(798)
  smbd version 3.0.14a started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2004

As per the post above, I tried

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adduser samba

but it made no difference.

[St_Andrew]

parsim, try uncomment the line "guest account = pcguest" or add that account might work too. Worked for me and i had the same problem as you.

[parsim]

Ahh, thanks for the tip. That line was already uncommented in my /etc/samba/smb.conf, but I tried commenting it out, and ta-da! It works.

I imagine it's the same reason as you implied: there was no 'pcguest' user on my system. But there is a 'nobody', the default.

[Chewwit]

I have a similar problem,

Been playing round with samba trying to get a share without windows users supplying a password on a new gentoo install. Part of this lead to me

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 useradd nobody

as i thought one of the reasons it wasn't working was that the guest account 'nobody' didn't exist on my machine.

I now realise this isn't possible to do unless you set your security level to share, which i can't do because of my networks security policy. So i duly

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smbpasswd -x nobody 

and

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userdel -r nobody

as i don't want excess users on my system

and now i have the self same problem, samba fails on boot with

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auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_sam(840)
  User nobody, gest in passdb, but getpwnam() fails!

In the log.
Remerged to no avail.

There are NO users in the passdb.

when i

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useradd nobody

problem is resolved, but i really don't want any additional users if possible as they are a security risk. Iam loathe to then use nobody as my samba login because it's sambas guest login, and i'm worried it wil upset/confuse it in some way.

Any suggestions?