Broken Samba By Installing Smbclient

[the_ph1lth]

Hi,
Have done a lot of searching around but can't dig up the right info apparently.
Got a C700 -cacko 1.22a (by far my favourite for some time). Desktops running XP or Mepis with wlan and was all running great to see the Z, browse, transfer files and even sync.

Thought it might be nice to see the PC shares using smbclient so installed off the cacko feed through the gui. Also put on smbspool. There was an 'I'm sorry' error and the samba server stopped working (actually not sure if it was exactly then). Anyway after I took off smbclient and smbspool it definitely wasn't working.

Ping etc and seeing the Z on network list all ok but get a 'semaphore timeout' when try to browse the Z from PC.

Having put smbclient back again,  smbmount and the smbclient work great, not apparently the server.  Doing ps aux shows nmbd running but no smbd -noob so don't know if it should be there?
Also could'nt find any samba startup scripts anywhere to restart it. I imagine syncing's gone down on the usb but haven't tried since.

Please, please any ideas what may have occurred and how to fix it?

[stupkid]

Having put smbclient back again,  smbmount and the smbclient work great, not apparently the server.  Doing ps aux shows nmbd running but no smbd -noob so don't know if it should be there?

None of the files from the smbclient and smbspool packages touch any of the default samba stuff that comes with the ROM.

File from smbspool:
/opt/QtPalmtop/bin/smbspool

Files from smbclient:
/opt/QtPalmtop/bin/nmblookup
/opt/QtPalmtop/bin/smbclient
/etc/samba/codepages/unicode_map.ISO8859-1

I have installed and uninstalled all the Samba packages on my Z and it is working fine.  I think that the problem is elsewhere.

Also could'nt find any samba startup scripts anywhere to restart it. I imagine syncing's gone down on the usb but haven't tried since.

There aren't any samba startup scripts.  Look in /etc/inetd.conf as inetd spawns nmbd and smbd.

Please, please any ideas what may have occurred and how to fix it?
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I have had problems with the USBnet driver on windows, but browsing via wireless was always fine.  I don't have any super advice for you on this one.  Sorry.

[the_ph1lth]

Thanks stupkid,
I've got syncing going in simple mode and an smbd restart didn't seem to hang as it did before. Don't know if this is a good thing to do.
It hasn't sorted the semphore timeout but maybe more reboots or two at either end.
Haven't done anything else though and need to find some more time on it.

Any other ideas always welcome

[the_ph1lth]

For anyone looking - have done some work on my home LAN. The zaurus may be trying to take control as a workgroup master, since it seems to stop all windows networking quite effectively as soon as it connects. I think it competes with a W2k box I have recently added and really stuffs it when my linux box find its in smb4k.

Will have to sort this but canvassing for anyone else having the same issue?

I have to work through smb.conf...