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Note
Some UNIX/Linux systems use
xinetd
in place of
inetd
. Check your system documentation for the location
of the control files for your particular system implementation of
the network super daemon.
If you get a message saying session request failed, the server refused the
connection. If it says “Your server software is being unfriendly,” then
it's probably because you have invalid command line parameters to smbd,
or a similar fatal problem with the initial startup of smbd. Also
check your config file (smb.conf) for syntax errors with testparm
and that the various directories where Samba keeps its log and lock
files exist.
There are a number of reasons for which smbd may refuse or decline
a session request. The most common of these involve one or more of
the smb.conf file entries as shown in
the next example.
Example37.2.Configuration for Allowing Connections Only from a Certain Subnet
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[globals]
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hosts deny = ALL
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hosts allow = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/yy
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interfaces = eth0
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bind interfaces only = Yes
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In
Configuration for Allowing Connections Only from a Certain Subnet, no
allowance has been made for any session requests that will automatically translate to the loopback adapter
address 127.0.0.1. To solve this problem, change these lines as shown in
the following
example.
Example37.3.Configuration for Allowing Connections from a Certain Subnet and localhost
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[globals]
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hosts deny = ALL
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hosts allow = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/yy 127.
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interfaces = eth0 lo
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Another common cause of these two errors is having something already running on port 139,
such as Samba (smbd is running from inetd already) or Digital's Pathworks. Check
your inetd.conf file before trying to start smbd as a daemon it can avoid a
lot of frustration!
And yet another possible cause for failure of this test is when the subnet mask and/or broadcast address
settings are incorrect. Please check that the network interface IP address/broadcast address/subnet mask
settings are correct and that Samba has correctly noted these in the log.nmbd file.
Run the command
nmblookup -B BIGSERVER __SAMBA__
.
You should get back the IP address of your Samba server.
If you do not, then nmbd is incorrectly installed. Check your inetd.conf
if you run it from there, or that the daemon is running and listening to UDP port 137.
One common problem is that many inetd implementations can't take many
parameters on the command line. If this is the case, then create a
one-line script that contains the right parameters and run that from
inetd.
Run the command
nmblookup -B ACLIENT `*'
.
You should get the PC's IP address back. If you do not, then the client
software on the PC isn't installed correctly, or isn't started, or you
got the name of the PC wrong.
If ACLIENT does not resolve via DNS, then use the IP address of the
client in the above test.
Run the command
nmblookup -d 2 `*'
.
This time we are trying the same as the previous test but are trying
it via a broadcast to the default broadcast address. A number of
NetBIOS/TCP/IP hosts on the network should respond, although Samba may
not catch all of the responses in the short time it listens. You
should see the got a positive name query response
messages from several hosts.
If this does not give a result similar to the previous test, then nmblookup isn't correctly getting your
broadcast address through its automatic mechanism. In this case you should experiment with the
interfaces option in smb.conf to manually configure your IP address, broadcast, and netmask.
If your PC and server aren't on the same subnet, then you will need to use the
-B option to set the broadcast address to that of the PC's subnet.
This test will probably fail if your subnet mask and broadcast address are
not correct. (Refer to test 3 notes above).
Run the command
smbclient //BIGSERVER/TMP
. You should
then be prompted for a password. You should use the password of the account
with which you are logged into the UNIX box. If you want to test with
another account, then add the -U accountname option to the end of
the command line for example,
smbclient //bigserver/tmp -Ujohndoe
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