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Re: How to tell what is binding a port?



Quoting Brian Servis (servis@purdue.edu):
> 
> Something is binding to port 139 which is what samba is trying to use
> and thus smbd is failing to start.  How can I track down what is bound
> to the port?  /etc/services points to netbios-ssn service which is what 
> smbd handles but I am getting the following errors in the smb logs:
> 
> [1999/10/13 11:39:42, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(671)
>   bind failed on port 139 socket_addr=0.0.0.0 (Address already in use)
> 
> Thanks for any pointers,

Sounds a bit like bug #17907. Have you tried running nmbd and smbd
as daemons rather than from inetd?

Sorry if it's not related.

Cheers,

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