Samba error in syslog

[Michael Elleby III_1]

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.

[harry d brown jr]

Probably a smb.conf file configuration error:

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


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[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

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

[Magdi KAMAL]

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

[Michael Elleby III_1]

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-