Samba smbd error

[Nick D'Angelo]

Hello,

For some reason, after I changed the ip address of my Unix server, the samba NFS share is no longer visible when I click on network Neighbourhood.

This is the error in the log.smbd file[2002/10/29 08:47:20, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(789)
bind failed on port 139 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0.
Error = Address already in use

I have tried to determine the problem using netstat -an, but to no avail.

Any suggestions?

Also, the machine has two NIC cards, ip address 60 and 61 on the end.

Thanks.

[John Palmer]

How did you change the IP address? Did you do a reboot? If you didn't, it sounds as thought there are some smbd processes still running, using the old address. You could try killing them.

Regards,
John

[Nick D'Angelo]

Sorry, Yes we did reboot.

I must also inform you that the shortcut that I previously had on my Desktop DOES work. I just can not see it when I browse the network.

[Nag Varma]

As a quick thought..
did you try rebooting your PC..
thx
Nag

[Nick D'Angelo]

Nag V,

I rebooted my PC but no go.

Remember the error on my original posting about bind failing, was on the HPUX10.20 server.

[Govind]

I forgot to add.. After you unregister and re-register, you might wnat to stop and start the smbd and nmbd daemons.
Govind

[Govind]

You might want to try to unregister the samba server on the Primary Domain Controller and reregister it again. I had a similar issue once this fixed it.

[Nick D'Angelo]

Ok, so then how do I un-register the samba server?

[Govind]

When you made a unix server as a samba server you would have to get it registered on the Primary domain controller. We typically use the Server Manager Utility(which allows to add and remove hosts from the domain).Ofcourse you would have to loginto the Primary Domain Controller as a administrator to be able to do this. I have the binaries on my win2k Box its called Svrmgr.exe.
P.S. Look into you smb.conf file to see which domain you are on.

[Nick D'Angelo]

G,

I have removed it and re-added it to the NT domain. however, the error is still present in the log.smbd file.

Most puzzling?

Nickd

[Darren Prior]

Hi Nick,

It sounds like nmbd is being started by inetd, and then the Samba startup script is trying to start it again. I suggest you check /etc/inetd.conf for the following lines:

netbios_ns stream tcp nowait root /opt/samba/bin/nmbd nmbd
netbios_ssn stream tcp nowait root /opt/samba/bin/smbd smbd

If they're present then comment them out (or delete them) and reread inetd.conf using inetd -c.

regards,

Darren.

[Nick D'Angelo]

Darren,

Thanks for tip, I will check that out shortly.

However, if I go to a command prompt on my WInblows computer and issue the command:

net view \\hostname

it comes back with an error 64

If I issue the command

net view \\ip address

Then it shows me the shares.

I suspect that there is a missing little piece somewhere that is preventing this server from showing up on the Winblows Domain.

Nickd

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,
I don't think smbd will be running after it gives out bind failed on port 139 error.

To check that
#ps -ef | grep smbd | grep -v grep

Check /etc/inetd.conf for smbd entry.


regards,
U.SivaKumar

[T G Manikandan]

Is nmbd running on the samba machine.
This should be running to make it visible on the Network Neighbourhood.

Also try doing a nslookup from the Windows machine.

I am not sure whether you have to append the domainname with the hostname because hpux does not support netbios naming.

C;\nslookup
or
C:\nslookup .

Thanks

[Nick D'Angelo]

All,

Making progress but in a strange way - I think.

I do an nslookup (on Winblows) and it returns correctly with the IP address for the Unix server.

I can see my shares if I type in:

net view \\servername

however I get a System error 5 if I type in:

net view \\ip address

I can map to the shares if I know what the share names are but I can not see it in the net neighborhood.

[Darren Prior]

Hi Nick,

Is a nmbd process running?

regards,

Darren.

[Nick D'Angelo]

Yes it is, I have restarted it many many times to make sure.