CIFS samba startup error

[MikeL_4]

When starting up Samba I am receiving:

Starting HP CIFS Server
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S900samba start":
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Unable to start smbd & nmbd!
"/sbin/rc2.d/S900samba start" FAILED

We are running version: A.02.03

[MikeL_4]

Noticed this in the log file:

[2007/03/21 16:13:26, 1] auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_sam(875)
User pcguest in passdb, but getpwnam() fails!
[2007/03/21 16:13:26, 0] smbd/server.c:main(860)
ERROR: failed to setup guest info.

[David Nixon · Accepted solution]

You need to check the line in your Samba configuration file begining

guest account =

for syntax errors and or invalid user IDs being listed as guests.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

There would appear to be a smb.conf problem.

CIFS/Samba provides a syntax checker called testparm

Nice and generic and hard for me to remember.

SEP

[MikeL_4]

Thanks for your replies...

I did find the issue, we had moved about a year ago from an Open source version of Samba to using CIFS Server. We finally got around to doing an swremove of the old Samba installation and it removed the pcguest login from the passwd file, after re-adding the id samba started back up correctly.