Hi

I have a samba server here at work. Last night I did a ports upgrade and
since then samba fails to start. It just hangs at the rc script.

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba start
Removing stale Samba tdb files: done
Starting nmbd.
Starting smbd.

# ps auxwww |grep smb
root 66854 0.0 0.7 5740 3464 ?? Ss 9:09AM 0:00.01
/usr/local/sbin/nmbd -D -s /usr/local/etc/smb.conf
root 67466 0.0 1.3 9616 6756 p1 I+ 9:09AM 0:00.06
/usr/local/sbin/smbd -d 5 -s /usr/local/etc/smb.conf
root 67561 0.0 0.2 1596 924 p2 S+ 9:09AM 0:00.00 grep smb

and in the log file it looks like this
[2008/05/13 09:14:16, 5] lib/debug.c:debug_dump_status(391)
INFO: Current debug levels:
all: True/5
tdb: False/0
printdrivers: False/0
lanman: False/0...

Woot, its back up.

The problem was cups.

I never used cups before, but for some reason now I have to start cups up
so that samba can work.

Regards
Reinhold

On Tue, May 13, 2008 09:20, Reinhold wrote:

i don't have cups installed and have samba running. check samba config -
it should not be like this

On Tue, May 13, 2008 10:55, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

I just checked make config and I have cups selected, but I'm pretty sure
it has always been selected. I'll deselect it and recompile and see what
happens.

Here is my smb.conf
[global]
dos charset = ASCII
unix charset = UTF8
workgroup = OFFICE
server string = Samba File Server
passdb backend = tdbsam
log file...