From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 2 00:39:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6447416A421 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 00:39:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from groups@0x12.com) Received: from vps.0x12.com (vps.0x12.com [66.150.224.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A3C13C45B for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 00:39:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from groups@0x12.com) Received: from Grants-Mac-Mini.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vps.0x12.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id l520dGYY001691 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 20:39:17 -0400 Received: from 87.81.116.75 ([87.81.116.75] helo=Grants-Mac-Mini.local) by ASSP.nospam; 1 Jun 2007 20:39:16 -0400 Message-ID: <4660BC36.1030601@0x12.com> Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:39:18 +0100 From: Grant User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Macintosh/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: User Questions References: <46608B61.5080201@cs.okstate.edu> <46609C54.8020509@0x12.com> <20070601200558.B075.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20070601200558.B075.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: trouble with samba X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:39:19 -0000 Gerard wrote: > On Friday June 01, 2007 at 06:23:16 (PM) Grant wrote: > > > >> I dont think that it is related to cupsd, the reason i say this is that >> i have the exact same problem, but my samba was built *without* cups. >> >> I havnt touched my rc.conf since it was put in place a few months ago >> (when it worked fine), so something have changed in samba or something >> is broken in samba which is causing these problems ? i'm not running the >> most current version, currently 6.2-RELEASE-p3, but samba is the latest >> version (samba-3.0.25,1) >> > > The current version is 6.2-Release-p5 I believe. > > I read something in the Samba forum about problems updating Samba and > FreeBSD. It seems that in certain situations the only approach that is > guaranteed to work is: > > 1) Stopping Samba > 2) Using pkg_delete to remove Samba > 3) Reinstalling Samba > 4) Reboot the system > > If nothing else works, you might give that a try. Be sure that all > dependencies are updated as well. If you use 'portupgrade' or > 'portmanager' that is relatively easy to do. > > > Yea p5 is the current, I just havnt updated mine yet.. I'm not able to test that approach you said.. as its allways in use (apart from holidays), so a reboot would be bad... so i might make up a test box to see what causes this strange problem. Thanks. Grant.