On my Centos-7-server I’m compiling samba as a file server. This worked well up to version 4.9. After 4.10 was released, I did my compile routine, started smbd and it exited immediately and quietly. Even with debug output and in a debug build there was no conclusive output. Looking through the samba sources there where some points where the smbd server process exits without printing some message. so I started instrumenting this exits and working up the call tree to the point where the lock dir gets set. I did not change this via configure, so it was the default /var/lock which worked well for version 4.9, but version 4.10 and up need the configure option --with-lockdir=/var/run/lock/samba to run, why I did not fathom. Now everything works again.
Category: Samba
