smbd and nmbd wont run

Can you start smbd and nmbd without using swat? What happens if you run?
$ sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

What does the SWAT WebGUI tell you when it won't let your start smbd and nmbd?

/var/log/daemon.log is usually a good place to look when you have uncooperative daemons.

in the webgui i hit restart all and the smbd and nmbd never start or even when i hit start on those two
but ever thing else runs

the sudo restart cmd just tells me it failed to kill- no such process then says start samba ok!

this is my daemon.log

Apr 30 01:55:59 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: [2009/04/30 01:55:59, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
Apr 30 01:55:59 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: WARNING: no network interfaces found
Apr 30 01:56:04 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: [2009/04/30 01:56:04, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
Apr 30 01:56:04 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: WARNING: no network interfaces found
Apr 30 01:56:09 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: [2009/04/30 01:56:09, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
Apr 30 01:56:09 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: WARNING: no network interfaces found
Apr 30 01:56:14 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: [2009/04/30 01:56:14, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
Apr 30 01:56:14 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: WARNING: no network interfaces found
Apr 30 01:56:19 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: [2009/04/30 01:56:19, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
Apr 30 01:56:19 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: WARNING: no network interfaces found
Apr 30 01:56:24 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: [2009/04/30 01:56:24, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
Apr 30 01:56:24 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: WARNING: no network interfaces found
Apr 30 01:56:29 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: [2009/04/30 01:56:29, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
Apr 30 01:56:29 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: WARNING: no network interfaces found
Apr 30 01:56:34 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: [2009/04/30 01:56:34, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
Apr 30 01:56:34 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: WARNING: no network interfaces found
Apr 30 01:56:39 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: [2009/04/30 01:56:39, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
Apr 30 01:56:39 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: WARNING: no network interfaces found
Apr 30 01:56:44 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: [2009/04/30 01:56:44, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
Apr 30 01:56:44 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: WARNING: no network interfaces found
Apr 30 01:56:49 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: [2009/04/30 01:56:49, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
Apr 30 01:56:49 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: WARNING: no network interfaces found
Apr 30 01:56:54 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: [2009/04/30 01:56:54, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
Apr 30 01:56:54 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: WARNING: no network interfaces found
Apr 30 01:56:59 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: [2009/04/30 01:56:59, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
Apr 30 01:56:59 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: WARNING: no network interfaces found
Apr 30 01:57:04 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: [2009/04/30 01:57:04, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
Apr 30 01:57:04 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: WARNING: no network interfaces found
Apr 30 01:57:09 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: [2009/04/30 01:57:09, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
Apr 30 01:57:09 ultratek-desktop nmbd[2651]: WARNING: no network interfaces found
Apr 30 01:57:14 ultratek-desktop nmbd[26...

Looks like samba can't guess the network interfaces on that system. Could you post the output of the "ifconfig" command ? Manually adding an "interfaces" line to your smb.conf file might be a workaround.

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1d:09:2b:b1:8c
          inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21d:9ff:fe2b:b18c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:51215 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:33506 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:50909226 (50.9 MB) TX bytes:8414585 (8.4 MB)
          Memory:febe0000-fec00000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1861 (1.8 KB) TX bytes:1861 (1.8 KB)

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Thierry Carrez <email address hidden>wrote:

> Looks like samba can't guess the network interfaces on that system.
> Could you post the output of the "ifconfig" command ? Manually adding an
> "interfaces" line to your smb.conf file might be a workaround.
>
> --
> smbd and nmbd wont run
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369090
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “samba” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: samba
>
> jaunty:
>
> i cant strat smbd and nmbd thorugh swat ... it is a clean installation of
> the latest samba on jaunty
>
> i wouldnt know where to look for logs on this
>

That looks good to me...
Could you start the samba daemons (sudo service samba start) then after a few seconds check if they are really running (sudo service samba status). If they aren't, could you post the relevant contents from the /var/log/samba directory. Thanks !

 * Starting Samba daemons [
OK ]
ultratek@ultratek-desktop:~$ sudo service samba status
 * nmbd is running
 * smbd is not running
log.smbd:
[2009/05/04 16:13:37, 0] smbd/server.c:main(1260)
  smbd version 3.3.2 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009
[2009/05/05 04:23:58, 0] smbd/server.c:main(1260)
  smbd version 3.3.2 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009
[2009/05/05 08:25:34, 0] smbd/server.c:main(1260)
  smbd version 3.3.2 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009

samba.log:
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:57:57, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:58:02, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:58:07, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:58:12, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:58:17, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:58:22, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:58:27, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:58:32, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:58:37, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:58:42, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:58:47, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:58:52, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:58:57, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:59:02, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:59:07, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:59:12, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:59:17, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:59:22, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:59:27, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:59:32, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:59:37, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:59:42, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:59:47, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:59:52, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2009/05/04 11:59:57, 0] lib/interface.c:load_interfaces(546)
  WARNING: no network interfaces foun...

This should be fixed in karmic now.

Regards
chuck