Problem with Samba

[Ed Greshko]

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

Going OT here.....

Run vmware-config.pl as root ....  I'm sure one of the questions asked 
has to do with samba configuration.
It may be under the "hostonly" network settings.

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/   is a nice resource.  :-)


> 
>>
>>
>> LorD of jUmP wrote:
>>
>>> 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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