Re: samba on NetBSD 5.1

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Jun 5, 2011, at 12:39 41PM, Nino on NetBSD 5.0.1 wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I am trying to run samba on NetBSD 5.1.
> 
> I did add
> 
> samba=yes
> smbd=yes
> nmbd=yes
> winbindd=yes
> 
> to my rc.conf.
> 
> I also took a smb.conf that I was using on FreeBSD. Testparm was telling me 
> that some directories did not exist in /var, otherwise my file is fine.
> 
> However, samba does not run:
> 
> ps aux | grep smbd
> 
> did not show anything.
> 
> What shall I do to get this beast up? If you need any further information, 
> please let me know. - As I DID get samba to run in FreeBSD, so I am rather 
> convinced that it is NOT my smb.conf.

What happens if you type

        /etc/rc.d/samba start

Does it say that it has started?  If it did start, are there any useful
messages in /var/log/smbd.log or /var/log/nmbd.log?

                --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb