starting Samba daemons at bootup

I've included the lines:

/usr/local/libexec smbd # start the Samba daemons
/usr/local/libexec nmbd

in /etc/rc.local but my Windows 98 users don't see the shares. Using
Webmin to see what's going on I'm told:

The Samba servers do not appear to be running on your system. This
means that the shares listed above will not be accessible to other
computers.

Clicking 'start servers' gets everything going OK. What am I missing
to make it so they start properly when the server boots?

The server is OpenBSD 3.2, smbd/nmbd are 2.2.8a (which are the latest
packages for OpenBSD I believe).

"asumoactingbig" <asumoactingbig@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bac833fe.0312271849.6637b493@posting.google.com...[color=blue]
> I've included the lines:
>
> /usr/local/libexec smbd # start the Samba daemons
> /usr/local/libexec nmbd
>
> in /etc/rc.local but my Windows 98 users don't see the shares. Using
> Webmin to see what's going on I'm told:
>
> The Samba servers do not appear to be running on your system. This
> means that the shares listed above will not be accessible to other
> computers.
>
> Clicking 'start servers' gets everything going OK. What am I missing
> to make it so they start properly when the server boots?
>
> The server is OpenBSD 3.2, smbd/nmbd are 2.2.8a (which are the latest
> packages for OpenBSD I believe).[/color]

If you're using Webmin, from the System page use Bootup and Shutdown to edit
the smb action in the bootup sequence.

You could have a problem with the log files - if samba can't find log files
or smb.conf it can fail without an error message.

Are you getting any entries in log.smbd or log.nmbd? how about in the system
error log?

Can you start the services manually from the command line? If not, what error
messages do you get there?


asumoactingbig <asumoactingbig@yahoo.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> I've included the lines:[/color]
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> /usr/local/libexec smbd # start the Samba daemons
> /usr/local/libexec nmbd[/color]
[color=blue]
> in /etc/rc.local but my Windows 98 users don't see the shares. Using
> Webmin to see what's going on I'm told:[/color]
[color=blue]
> The Samba servers do not appear to be running on your system. This
> means that the shares listed above will not be accessible to other
> computers.[/color]
[color=blue]
> Clicking 'start servers' gets everything going OK. What am I missing
> to make it so they start properly when the server boots?[/color]
[color=blue]
> The server is OpenBSD 3.2, smbd/nmbd are 2.2.8a (which are the latest
> packages for OpenBSD I believe).[/color]