making Samba work [new detail]

[Paul Howarth]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Tue August 9 2005 11:39 am, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>Claude Jones wrote:
>>
>>>Can't stop, but start is ok... any ideas?
>>
>>Test rndc again:
>>
>># rndc status
>>
> 
> root at viewridgeproductions2 etc]# rndc status
> number of zones: 6
> debug level: 0
> xfers running: 0
> xfers deferred: 0
> soa queries in progress: 0
> query logging is OFF
> recursive clients: 0/1000
> tcp clients: 0/100
> server is up and running
> 
> 
>>If it doesn't work, check the output of:
>>
>># netstat -lp
>>
>>There should be an entry like:
>>
>>tcp 0 0 localhost:rndc *:* LISTEN 1835/named
>>
> 
> tcp        0      0 viewridgeproductions2.:rndc *:*                         
> LISTEN      14231/named
> 
> 
>>If there isn't, the named isn't listening for control connections and
>>the error is in your named.conf
>>
> 
> 
> This doesn't precisely coincide to what you say, but I don't see anything jump 
> off the page at me... I wonder, this port it's listening on, does this have 
> to be available to the lan? Or is this just the machine talking to itself? 
> All lo is allowed in my firewall rules, but talk between the lan and the 
> firewall is extremely restricted. 

rndc seems to be OK.

Try:
# rndc stop
# echo $?

Also look in /var/log/messages for any possible reasons why this 
shouldn't work (rndc stop should kill named).

You'll need to start named again of course.

Paul.