trouble with samba

[Grant]

Gerard wrote:
> On Friday June 01, 2007 at 06:23:16 (PM) Grant wrote:
>
>
>   
>> I dont think that it is related to cupsd, the reason i say this is that 
>> i have the exact same problem, but my samba was built *without* cups.
>>
>> I havnt touched my rc.conf since it was put in place a few months ago 
>> (when it worked fine), so something have changed in samba or something 
>> is broken in samba which is causing these problems ? i'm not running the 
>> most current version, currently 6.2-RELEASE-p3, but samba is the latest 
>> version (samba-3.0.25,1)
>>     
>
> The current version is 6.2-Release-p5 I believe.
>
> I read something in the Samba forum about problems updating Samba and
> FreeBSD. It seems that in certain situations the only approach that is
> guaranteed to work is:
>
> 1) Stopping Samba
> 2) Using pkg_delete to remove Samba
> 3) Reinstalling Samba
> 4) Reboot the system
>
> If nothing else works, you might give that a try. Be sure that all
> dependencies are updated as well. If you use 'portupgrade' or
> 'portmanager' that is relatively easy to do.
>
>
>   
Yea p5 is the current, I just havnt updated mine yet..

I'm not able to test that approach you said.. as its allways in use 
(apart from holidays), so a reboot would be bad... so i might make up a 
test box to see what causes this strange problem.

Thanks.
Grant.