nmb not starting at boot

[toys19]

I'm using f15 and tryign to get samba working to share files forwards and backwards with my windows boxes. After boot samba does not seem to work so if I check smb status its running fine, but if I check nmb its says inactive?

[root@localhost ~]# service nmb status
nmb.service - SYSV: Starts and stops the Samba smbd and nmbd daemons used to provide SMB network services.
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/nmb)
Active: inactive (dead)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/nmb.service

So I can start it easily, and then my samba works..

[root@localhost ~]# service nmb start
Starting nmb (via systemctl): [ OK ]

Now I am starting to get beyond my abilities, but I had a look in here /etc/rc.d/init.d/nmb as that location was indicated in the message above and the contents of the file are below? Doesn't this file tell fedora if it should start nmb on boot or not? There seems to be a command to start nmb and then one which stops it? (highlighted in bold by me) Does this make sense to anyone? (I'm way beyond my circle of knowledge here...)

#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: - 91 35
# description: Starts and stops the Samba smbd and nmbd daemons \
# used to provide SMB network services.
#
# pidfile: /var/run/samba/nmbd.pid
# config: /etc/samba/smb.conf


# Source function library.
if [ -f /etc/init.d/functions ] ; then
. /etc/init.d/functions
elif [ -f /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions ] ; then
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
else
exit 1
fi

# Avoid using root's TMPDIR
unset TMPDIR

# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/samba ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/samba
fi

# Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 1

# Check that smb.conf exists.
[ -f /etc/samba/smb.conf ] || exit 6

RETVAL=0


start() {
KIND="NMB"
echo -n $"Starting $KIND services: "
daemon nmbd $NMBDOPTIONS
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/nmb || \
RETVAL=1
return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
KIND="NMB"
echo -n $"Shutting down $KIND services: "
killproc nmbd
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/nmb
return $RETVAL
}

restart() {
stop
start
}

reload() {
echo -n $"Reloading smb.conf file: "
killproc nmbd -HUP
RETVAL=$?
echo
return $RETVAL
}

rhstatus() {
status -l nmb nmbd
return $?
}


# Allow status as non-root.
if [ "$1" = status ]; then
rhstatus
exit $?
fi

uid=`id | cut -d\( -f1 | cut -d= -f2`

# Check that we stop here for non-root users
[ $uid -ne 0 ] && exit 4


case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
restart
;;
reload)
reload
;;
status)
rhstatus
;;
condrestart)
[ -f /var/lock/subsys/nmb ] && restart || :
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|status|condrestart}"
exit 2
esac

exit $?

[smr54]

Try


chkconfig nmb on


That's actually the old way but I haven't done the reading on systemd and that way still works. The chkconfig command used to list what is running at at start and do some other things--now, there is a different systemd syntax but all the chkconfig commands except --list should still work.


There's a systemd cheatsheet around somewhere, not sure where.

[bbfuller]

Hello toys19

If you wish to do it using systemd commands they are:

systemctl enable nmb.service
systemctl enable smb.service

and

systemctl start nmb.service
systemctl start smb.service

but in F15 at least you'll see that it calls the chkconfig scripts.

[smr54]

Ah sorry, I'm in F16.

Here's the cheatsheet

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SysVin...emd_Cheatsheet


Thanks bbfuller, for the correct syntax.

[toys19]

ok thanks. I'm having samba issues still..