If I stop ldap then smb runs but as soon as I restart ldap I get the "smbd dead but pid file exists" message again. When smb is running I can't get a sid because smb tries to call ldap which is not running. So there is something in ldap that is making smb crash. When I had this problem in the past it was because my ldif file was corrupted. Slapadd from backup fixed it. But that was with an installed system and I can't get to that stage yet. [root@k12ltsp1 smbldap-installer]# service ldap stop Stopping slapd: [OK] [root@k12ltsp1 smbldap-installer]# service smb restart Shutting down SMB services: [ OK ] Shutting down NMB services: [ OK ] Starting SMB services: [ OK ] Starting NMB services: [ OK ] [root@k12ltsp1 smbldap-installer]# service smb status smbd (pid 16207) is running... nmbd (pid 16211 16210) is running... [root@k12ltsp1 smbldap-installer]# service ldap start Checking configuration files for slapd: config file testing succeeded [ OK ] Starting slapd: [ OK ] [root@k12ltsp1 smbldap-installer]# service smb status smbd dead but pid file exists nmbd (pid 16211 16210) is running... <div>On 01/01/07, Krsnendu dasa <<a href="mailto:krsnendu108@gmail.com">krsnendu108@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">samba is not running. [root@k12ltsp1 smbldap-installer]# service smb start Starting SMB services: [ OK ] Starting NMB services: [ OK ] [root@k12ltsp1 smbldap-installer]# net getlocalsid [2007/01/01 06:34:15, 0] utils/net.c:net_getlocalsid(583) Can't fetch domain SID for name: HKSCHOOL-PDC [root@k12ltsp1 smbldap-installer]# service smb status smbd dead but pid file exists nmbd (pid 14661 14659) is running...<div> <div>On 01/01/07, <a href="mailto:cliebow@midmaine.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> cliebow@midmaine.com</a> <<a href="mailto:cliebow@midmaine.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">cliebow@midmaine.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> net getlocalsid should spit out the sid if samaba is running..that needs to be in smbldap.conf _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">K12OSN@redhat.com </a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote> </div> </div></blockquote></div>