SAMBA on SCO

[Jerry Feldman]

This is certainly the right place for any Unix or Linux related discussin. 
I suggest you check the samba web site:http://us1.samba.org/
I had soem Samba problems a few months ago when I upgraded to SuSE 6.2 
(5.05a).  The problem was not a Samba problem, but  I did upgrade to 5.06 . 
I would suggest that you upgrade to 5.06.  You can download fro any of the 
many middor sites.
"Franklin H. Chasen" wrote:
> 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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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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