NMB has stopped working

I forgot to mention when I issued the command /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart, only the smb services are echoed on the screen (shutting down SMB [OK], restarting SMB [OK]).  The NMB services are not even mentioned.  I tried the testparm command and it worked flawlessly.  Like I mentioned previously it used to work fine

did you check the /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb script if it really starts nmbd too?
Do you have /etc/rc.d/init.d/nmb ?

I do not see /etc/rc.d/init.d/nmb in that directory

Here is my script exactly as it appears in /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb.  I transferred the file by using smbclient to move it from my Linux box to my NT Workstation.

#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: 345 91 35
# description: Starts and stops the Samba smbd and nmbd daemons \
#             used to provide SMB network services.

# Source function library.
.. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

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

# Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0

# Check that smb.conf exists.
[ -f /etc/smb.conf ] || exit 0

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
      echo -n "Starting SMB services: "
      daemon smbd -D       
      daemon nmbd -D
      echo
      touch /var/lock/subsys/smb
      ;;
  stop)
      echo -n "Shutting down SMB services: "
      killproc smbd
      killproc nmbd
      rm -f /var/lock/subsys/smb
      echo ""
      ;;
  status)
      status smbd
      status nmbd
      ;;
  restart)
      echo -n "Restarting SMB services: "
      $0 stop
      $0 start
      echo "done."
      ;;
  *)
      echo "Usage: smb {start|stop|restart|status}"
      exit 1
esac

/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb

try changing

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
echo -n "Starting SMB services: " 

smbd -D
nmbd -D

echo
touch /var/lock/subsys/smb

******
remove the word daemon from  daemon smbd -D and daemon nmbd -D

on my sys I can manually start both of them as root with

smbd -D
nmbd -D

what did you get with:

nmbd -D;echo "echo $? $status"; ps -ef|grep nmbd

I tried to start nmbd -D from the command line but nothing seemed to happen

I deleted the word "daemon" out of the smb script and now when I issue the command /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart it says:
Restarting SMB services: Shutting down SMB services [OK]
Starting SMB services:
done
Note that it no longer says [OK], it used to give output like this:
Starting SMB service                [OK]
Starting NMB service                [OK]

ahoffman: I am not sure how you would like me to use the command nmbd -D; echo "echo $? $status"; ps -ef | grep nmbd
should I try it inside the script?, because when I did it from the command line it didn't do anything.  Sort of like I needed to input more info.  This is what it looked like
[root@server root]$ nmbd -D; echo "echo $? $status"; ps -ef | grep nmbd
> (I did not know what to put here)

Do you guys want to see the log files in /var/log/samba/log.nmb and log.smb?

ok, sounds that you're using sh (or similar), then try:
  nmbd -D; echo "echo $?"; ps -ef | grep nmbd
if you get the > prompt, you probably missed a "
Log.smb would be a nice idea

root       860     1  0 Sep30 ?        00:00:40 nmbd -D
root      4545  4537  0 15:14 ttyp0    00:00:00 grep nmbd

that is the output, now it seems to be working, the server is back in NetNeighborhood.  Do you have any idea what could have caused the problem? and why didn't the script /etc/rc.d...work?

Your orginal script did not start the nmb only smb

(oops, my comment got lost somehow)
> .. any idea what could have caused the problem?
probably you have errors in smb.conf, please check the log files (from samba and system)
Or you may put a
   sleep 10
right after the smbd call, so that nmbd shurely starts after smbd (if it works, you may reduce the sleep time).
 
Looking at your posted script I've seen:
  .. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
  # note the 2 dots at the beginning
IMHO, it should be:
  . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
  # only one dot

Thanks, this seems to work fine

Hmm, confused about the solution
clsmoothe, did nmbd start after the changes on your PDC?
Or did this just solve the problem of name resolution?

I just need it to stop e-mail notification

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