Re: SMB sharing dies

On 6/21/07, James Peach <email@hidden> wrote:

On Jun 20, 2007, at 8:53 AM, Alex M wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am sharing a couple directories via SMB from a 10.4.9 server.  SMB
> seems to be dying after about day (at the most).  

<snip>

> In /var/log/samba/log.nmbd I get:
>
> [2007/06/19 10:00:34, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.7/samba/source/
> nmbd/nmbd.c:terminate(56)
>   Got SIGTERM: going down...
> [2007/06/20 08:03:23, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.7/samba/source/
> nmbd/nmbd.c:main(668)
>   Netbios nameserver version 3.0.10 started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2004
> [2007/06/20 08:09:02, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.7/samba/source/
> nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(396)

This means that someone restarted nmbd. I'm not sure why this would
occur on your system, but unless you're seeing it all the time (eg.
every few minutes) I wouldn't worry too much about it.

I guess I should have quoted the logs a bit better - that was me restarting it by hand.  The service dies and does not start back up until I stop and start it.  In server admin it still shows that the service is running when it clearly isn't.  I haven't checked if the process actually stops via `ps`.

It appears pretty random -- I can't tie it to any actions on my end...

Quite a few people had problems with smbd/nmbd early in the life of 10.4 server.

Various scripts for kicking (restarting) smbd were suggested.

Another suggestion was to modify the smbd.plist as follows:

<key>ProgramArguments</key>

        <array>

                <string>/usr/sbin/smbd</string>

                <string>-F</string>

        </array>