SAMBA on SCO

[Franklin H. Chasen]

I apologize for bringing up a Samba problem on a SCO system but I think it
is primarily Samba related.

I have been running Samba servers on both Linux and SCO Open Server ver
5.0.5a with no problems.  I shut down both my SCO servers on New Years
Eve.  When I started them up again the next day Samba was not working.

The daemons appear to load and remain running. The log.smb entry at this
point is:

[2000/01/08 14:11:25, 1] smbd/server.c:main(628)
  smbd version 2.0.5a started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
[2000/01/08 14:11:25, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216)
  file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 100 are
available.

Now when I try "smbclient -L myserver" I get the
following response:

Added interface ip=192.168.100.1 bcast=192.168.100.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
session request to MYSERVER failed
session request to *SMBSERVER failed

At this point the log file has:

[2000/01/08 14:19:00, 0] locking/shmem_sysv.c:sysv_shm_open(597)
  ERROR: root did not create the semaphore
[2000/01/08 14:19:00, 0] locking/locking.c:locking_init(174)
  ERROR: Failed to initialise share modes

which is repeated again.

I tried looking at the source code but not being a programmer it did not
give me any clues.

Essentially I am not seeing any STATUS..LCK or SHARE_MEM_FILE* files which
would usually be created when I use the smbclient command.

While writing this message today I restarted Samba on both my servers. On
one I suddenly got a new message in the log.smb file:

[2000/01/08 14:39:35, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(854)
  Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host scosysv.mydomain

I changed the hostname in the /etc/hosts file to match the output of
hostname (scosysv.mydomain), restarted Samba, and everything was ok on
that machine.  On my other SCO machine, /etc/hosts already matched the
output of hostname so that one is still not working.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

--Frank

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