[TriLUG] SAMBA question - booting

[Jon Carnes]

On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 14:26, Roy Vestal wrote:
> I have samba installed on RHL 9. When I start up, it hangs on "starting SMB
> service". 

That being the case, then it is dying on the command:
  daemon smbd -D

Otherwise you would see the "Starting NMB services: "

Try chaning that line to:
   daemon smbd -d 3

That will generate a lot of debug information. The log files should let
you know exactly what is going on. 
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I have seen similar behavior before in following cases:
 - firewall rules blocking ports during boot (make sure firewall not
loading during boot - at least while you test).
 - root mount locked or not yet fully mounted
 - mounting point being used by automount (or other daemon which has not
*yet* timed out during boot)
 - dns/resolv.conf file not set till rc.local is run (put hosts ip and
names in /etc/hosts file)

> I can 3 finger salute and reboot. I go in via single, and remark
> the samba entries in /etc/fstab and then "init 5" and it boots fine. I have
> a total of 4 shares loading. I've tried them one at a time, but they all
> hang at boot.
> 
> As a test, I booted without them loading, then removed the remark from
> /etc/fstab and did "mount -a". 3 of the 4 shares load without hanging. The
> 4th is a hidden windows share. I don't use it, so I've remarked it out and
> rebooted. It still hangs on "starting SMB service".
> 
> I've done the above adding one drive at a time and using "mount -a", and
> there are no errors. However, if I reboot the box, it hangs on "starting SMB
> service" whether 1, 2, or 3 drives are there.