samba config problems

[Reid Linnemann]

Written by Andrew Falanga on 06/14/07 10:02>>
> I'm trying to get samba working in a test environment.  I do not need
> great functionality, so I'm going off of the simple setup stuff in the
> Handbook.  This should be enough.  I've configured my
> /usr/local/etc/smb.conf file for a single share (the /tmp share) and
> changed the workgroup name and set passwd backend = smbpasswd; I then
> tried to start samba with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba start.  After
> this, I get only, "Removing stale Samba tdb files:  done."  The
> handbook shows that I should see,
> 
> Starting SAMBA: removing stale tdbs :
> Starting nmbd.
> Starting smbd.
> 
> I then tried "sockstat" and did not see any listening sockets for the
> daemon "smbd."  I don't know if I would, but I wanted to try this.
> I'm not convinced at this point that I'm actually getting samba to
> start.  How can I verify this?
> 
> I'm trying to add users to the smbpasswd file using smbpasswd, but
> this is to no avail.  What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Andy
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Did you put 'smbd_enable="yes"' in /etc/rc.conf?