Samba SWAT status shows smbd not running but...

[romano r]

Hello,
I've installed CIFS/9000 server on my HP-UX11i box. It seems work fine, but using the SWAT status tab it shows me that "nmbd" daemon is running and "smbd" not even if it is running. From this menu I can restart "smbd", but not stop because "not running"; "nmbd" is correctly show as "runnig".

Has anyone an idea on how to manage this?
Thanks
Romano

[Christos Magdalinos]

can you send the output of
ps -ef|grep bd

???

Cheers

[Steve Steel]

Hi


http://docs.cup.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8725-90039/B8725-90039_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8725-90039/00/00/9-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8725-90039/00/00/9-toc.html&searchterms=swat%7ccifs&queryid=20030515-022655


Should help


Steve Steel

[romano r]

Hello Christos!

>ps -ef |grep bd
root 11 0 0 May 5 ? 0:00 strfreebd
root 1098 1 0 May 5 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/hubd
root 25553 1 0 11:12:25 ? 0:00 /opt/samba/bin/smbd -D
root 25566 1 0 11:13:11 ? 0:00 /opt/samba/bin/nmbd -D

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,

Check whether the smbd daemon's pid file is created or not.

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Zeev Schultz]

Hi Romano,
This is looks pretty strange but cifs9000
stop script (stopsmb) is the only one that
mentions (removes) /var/opt/samba/locks/*.pid
files (that has smbd/nmbd pid).
Anyway,the problem with SWAT is a bit different
---- From some of my searches ------------
The way the swat (Samba Web Administration Tool) tool determines
whether SMBD is running or not is by doing a name_query on 127.0.0.1
for the name "SAMBA". If it finds this name, then it reports that
smbd is running.

Make sure the configuration has not somehow disabled 127.0.0.1.

There are various places to check depending on the network
configuration in terms of name resolutions:

1. NIS

2. DNS

3. /etc/hosts file

4. nsswitch configuration

Regards

Zeev

[Zeev Schultz · Accepted solution]

All right,
Thats where you can see it:
/opt/samba/bin/nmblookup -A localhost.
On my samba:

silverc:root:samba/bin# nmblookup -A localhost
Looking up status of 127.0.0.1
SILVERC <00> - M
SILVERC <03> - M
SILVERC <20> - M
SAMBA <1e> - M

Where 1e stands for group..

[romano r]

Hi again,
[Zeev]
localhost is resolved, I run SWAT even from a remote PC than from the same host were CIFS is running, but alway the same:
smbd: not running
nmbd: running

[SivaKumar]
.pid files are created.

[Steve]
I can't reach docs.cup.hp.com

[romano r]

Wow!!
Thnk you Zeev 10 pts!!!
The samba host was looking just on DNS, but it could not resolve (due to a bug) localhost (just 127.0.0.1 to localhost and not the reverse). So I edited the nsswitch.conf I put host as 1st choice and it works!!

Thank you all
ciao
Romano