topic Re: Samba error in syslog in Operating System - HP-UX

Samba error in syslog

Michael Elleby III_1 — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:57:02 GMT

Here's an error I'm getting in the syslog that I haven't seen before:

Mar 25 08:57:18 mupr10 smbd[8738]: Unknown parameter encountered: "bind interfaces"

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.

Re: Samba error in syslog

harry d brown jr — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:06:38 GMT

Probably a smb.conf file configuration error:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch02_04.html

live free or die
harry

Re: Samba error in syslog

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:17:10 GMT

locate the command "testparm" in the samba bin directory and run it. It'll report errors in you smb.conf

Re: Samba error in syslog

Magdi KAMAL — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:51:43 GMT

Hi Michael,

The global entry name is "bind interfaces only" and NOT "bind interfaces".

So, modify your smb.conf file and restart the samba process ( stopsmb; startsmb) then execute the "testparm" command to figure out if there is any problem in your smb.conf Samba configuration file.

Magdi

Re: Samba error in syslog

Michael Elleby III_1 — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:23:07 GMT

Here's what I found. Looked in the quick reference of the Using Samba book.. The Bind Interfaces Only option is used to regulate what IP address it will accept based on entries in interfaces list. Valid, because the admin that configured Samba in our environment intended it to be this way, meaning, set the bind interfaces only option to YES.

Thanx Harry and the other guys for pointing me in the right direction (although I didn't set the assign points the way I wanted), because I'll modify the configuration file and run testparm again to make sure this entry doesn't cause a problem again.

Mike-