VmWare init scripts calls after samba scripts. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install and configure vmware and samba 2. add in samba config (smb.conf) options, that affected interfaces and access control. Say, if I configure vmware to use 172.31.1.1/24 as address of vmnet interface and then add to smb.conf next lines: hosts allow = ..... 172.31. interfaces = ..... 172.31.1.1/24 3. reboot. Actual Results: At first, samba starts, cannot find 172.31.1.1 interface and nmbd die. In /var/log/samba/log.nmbd something like this: [2004/06/01 20:23:50, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(666) bind failed on port 137 socket_addr = 172.31.1.1. Error = Cannot assign requested address [2004/06/01 20:23:50, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:make_subnet(126) nmbd_subnetdb:make_subnet() Failed to open nmb socket on interface 172.31.1.1 for port 137. Error was Can not assign requested address [2004/06/01 20:23:50, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(732) ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting. when start vmware. and guest operating system cannot find server/network path. Other external clients to samba server fails to work too. So i need manually stop, zap then start samba. Expected Results: starts vmware interfaces with other network interfaces, before any server-related software. net-fs/samba 3.0.2a-r2 app-emulation/vmware-workstation 4.5.1.7568 Portage 2.0.50-r7 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r0, 2. 6.5-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.15 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s hare/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmai l/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp. snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa avi berkdb cdr cjk crypt dvd encode foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imap imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mys ql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime read line sdl slang sse ssl svga tcpd truetype unicode x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
I'm just curious, but you're not using VMWare's built-in samba? It looks to me like you've emerged samba instead.
The "use samba" in the vmware init script was added to ensure that samba starts before vmware. -> Bug 36941
The original poster is trying to use his system samba as VMware's samba. The problem is that samba (because of the use samba) starts before VMware, which means that the interface/address is non-existant. My answer is to use VMware's built-in samba and *not* the system one, or to hack the vmware init script yourself. This is not the "normal" configuration, and therefore I am marking this as INVALID. If you see a reason to object, feel free to and we will look into it further.
Ok. May be you right, but imho for one task must use one software title, not two ;-)))
VMware is entirely self-contained. It has its own network drivers... it's own video hooks... it's own samba... it is only one product... you were the one trying to use two... :P You can configure VMware's samba duing the vmware-config.pl for setting up VMware.
