Problem with Samba

[LorD of jUmP]

Thanks a lot, but can you tell me how to disable samba of vmware or any 
links I can read.

Ed Greshko wrote:

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> LorD of jUmP wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>    I'm using RedHat ES3. I wanna set up this machine to be file 
>> server. The problem is when I run samba daemon, there was an error
>>
>> Shutting down SMB services: [FAILED]
>> Shutting down NMB services: [OK]
>> Starting SMB services: [OK]
>> Starting NMB services: [OK]
>>
>> (using command - "service smb restart")
>>
>>    When I use "service smb status" command it said
>>
>> smbd dead but pid file exists
>> nmbd (pid 4787) is running...
>>
>>
>>    I also have VMware installed. According to manual page of VMware 
>> they said
>>
>> This system appears to have a CIFS/SMB server (Samba) configured for 
>> normal use.
>> If this server is intended to run, you need to make sure that it will 
>> not
>> conflict with the Samba server setup on the private network (the one 
>> that we use
>> to share the host's filesystem).  Please check your 
>> /etc/samba/smb.conf file so
>> that:
>>
>> .  The "interfaces" line does not contain "172.16.75.1/255.255.255.0"
>> .  There is a "socket address" line that contains only your real host 
>> IP address
>>
>>    I try to config smb.conf but it isn't seem to work. Does anyone 
>> encountered this problem before? Help me please.
>
>
> Probably your VMware installed instance of samba is conflicting with 
> the RH installed instance.
>
> I run VMware here and have always disabled its instance of samba. 
> Running only the RH supplied samba
> sufficient to service VMware guest systems.
>
> So, I'm suggesting you reconfigure VMware not to start its version of 
> samba.
>
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