Comment 19 for bug 596064

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote :

What appears to be happening is that the first time nmbd gets run testparm fails (because pid dir /var/run/samba doesn't exist yet) so nmbd is not started.

After that smbd gets run and its pre-init will create /var/run/samba. So the next time nmbd's pre-init script will work.