Samba OK when starting, but FAIL when stopping?

Ace69

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I don't understand. It seems like Samba has been a pain in the arse for me. It is working one day and I don't change a thing in the configuration and it is not working the next. Everything looks OK in smb.conf, as far as I can tell. I can start samba and it gives me the big OK, but when I shut it down, it gives me the nasty FAILED. In fact, whenever I start it, it is NOT OK because it doesn't work. Does anyone have any suggestions?
 

IcEsToRmX

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You're going have to be more specific with your errors =/

I've got Samba running Slackware 8 for the last little while and it's been fine (mind you a Linux box is meant to be kept on not shut off).
What are the errors exactly? Perhaps some of our local Linux gurus can help you. Cheers!
 

Ace69

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It simply says if FAILED when I shut down the smb service. That is the exact error message that it gives.
 

Workin'

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I'm guessing that most likely you get that message because you are still havesome SMB share or another mounted when you go to stop the smb daemon - which won't unload if it still has something mounted, hence the error.

If it works OK when you start it up, and you can use it OK while it is running, that is probably the problem.