Re: [Hampshire] Samba Issue

Alastair Biggs wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I am using Debian Etch and Samba is Playing up
>
> When I try and start Samba I am being greeted with the message
> Starting Samba daemons. nmbd failed!
>
> I have tried restarting Samba but am getting the same message and I
> have uninstalled and reinstalled via aptitude
>
> Currently as it's a fresh install the smb.conf has defaulted back to
> it's original state.
>
> Help or troubleshooting steps would be appreciated.

Hi Alastair,

First up:

ls -ltr /var/log/samba/

That will reveal a number of log files. Take a look at log.nmbd for
information about what is going on.

Sean