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Operating Systems Solaris samba wouldn't start on solaris 10 Post 302266733 by incredible on Thursday 11th of December 2008 12:24:29 AM

12-11-2008

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Make sure that /usr/sfw/bin and /usr/sfw/sbin are on the root user's path.

Check you have the latest version of SAMBA installed:

root# /usr/sfw/sbin/smbd -V
Version 3.0.21b

This is the most recent version supported by Sun at this time. If you find you have an older version than the above then you should patch the system. The latest patch for SAMBA on Solaris 10 SPARC is 119757-04 and Solaris 10 x86 is 119758-04. If you have access to Sunsolve then Sun InfoDoc 80581 talks about this some more.

By default, all files create by the windows server in the Solaris directories shared by SAMBA will be owned by user nobody. If you want to change this then you can force the ownership to another user. I created a user evault in group other for this purpose. Make sure that the user you choose has permission to write to the directories in the file systems that you are sharing with SAMBA. You can use the user root if you wish.

Create an entry in the SAMBA user database for the user with the below command:

root# smbpasswd -a evault

Create the file /etc/sfw/smb.conf. Below is the /etc/sfw/smb.conf that I used. The SAM-FS file system was mounted as /ev_test and vaultstores was the subdirectory I wanted to share.

[global]
workgroup = EV-SAMFS
server string = Samba Server
log file = /var/adm/samba_log.%m
security = SHARE

[vaultstores]
comment = vaultstores
path = /ev_test/vaultstores
force user = evault
force group = other
read only = No
guest ok = Yes

It is not obvious, but the share is defined in the square brackets and is "vaultstores" in this case.

Note that once the file /etc/sfw/smb.conf exists SAMBA will start automatically when the system boots.

You should check the syntax of /etc/sfw/smb.conf using the command testparm. Assuming that all is well you can start SAMBA.
root# /etc/init.d/samba start

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tdbbackup

TDBBACKUP(8)															      TDBBACKUP(8)

NAME

       tdbbackup - tool for backing up and for validating the integrity of samba .tdb files

SYNOPSIS

       tdbbackup [-ssuffix] [-v] [-h]

DESCRIPTION

       This tool is part of the samba(1) suite.

       tdbbackup is a tool that may be used to backup samba .tdb files. This tool may also be used to verify the integrity of the .tdb files prior
       to samba startup or during normal operation. If it finds file damage and it finds a prior backup the backup file will be restored.

OPTIONS

       -h
	  Get help information.

       -s suffix
	  The -s option allows the adminisistrator to specify a file backup extension. This way it is possible to keep a  history  of  tdb  backup
	  files by using a new suffix for each backup.

       -v
	  The -v will check the database for damages (currupt data) which if detected causes the backup to be restored.

COMMANDS

       GENERAL INFORMATION

       The  tdbbackup  utility	can safely be run at any time. It was designed so that it can be used at any time to validate the integrity of tdb
       files, even during Samba operation. Typical usage for the command will be:

       tdbbackup [-s suffix] *.tdb

       Before restarting samba the following command may be run to validate .tdb files:

       tdbbackup -v [-s suffix] *.tdb

       Samba .tdb files are stored in various locations, be sure to run backup all .tdb file on the system. Important files includes:

       o

	  secrets.tdb - usual location is in the /usr/local/samba/private directory, or on some systems in /etc/samba.

       o

	  passdb.tdb - usual location is in the /usr/local/samba/private directory, or on some systems in /etc/samba.

       o

	  *.tdb located in the /usr/local/samba/var directory or on some systems in the /var/cache or /var/lib/samba directories.

VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.

AUTHOR

       The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the  Samba	Team  as  an  Open
       Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.

       The tdbbackup man page was written by John H Terpstra.

																      TDBBACKUP(8)