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I'm following Tuxnetworks tutorial, at the last line of the first part and I'm getting this error:

sysadmin@samba:~$ sudo smbclient -L localhost
Enter root's password:
Connection to localhost failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED)

I've read a few other threads where people seem to have the same issue but it either doesn't get resolved or their error isn't something I'm having troubles with.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1510536 http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2009-March/147401.html

testparm -s output:

Processing section ...
Global parameter logon script found in service section!
...
Loaded services file OK.

Despite the Global parameter... error it still loads the config fine.

smb.conf file I'm using is the one available in their tutorial with the following changes:

workgroup = MYDOMAIN.COM
netbios name = SAMBA
wins support = Yes

sudo netstat -llptun output:

...
tcp    0    0 0.0.0.0:389    0.0.0.0:*    LISTEN    1317/slapd
tcp6   0    0 :::445         :::*         LISTEN    1414/smbd
tcp6   0    0 :::389         :::*         LISTEN    1317/slapd
tcp6   0    0 :::139         :::*         LISTEN    1414/smbd
...

Anyone have any idea of why I would be getting NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED when executing smbclient -L localhost?

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Judging by all of the ubuntu in your linked tutorials, I'm going out on a limb and guessing you're on Ubuntu.

Based on your netstat output, Samba is only binding on IPv6 and not on IPv4. This can be verified with this command:

smbclient -L ::1

To force Samba to bind to your v4 localhost, use interfaces to specify the IPs to bind.

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  • when I execute `smbclient -L ::1` I'm now getting `NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE` at least it's a different error now. What IPs do I need to use in the interfaces section? – user29600 Jul 08 '11 at 16:21
  • @user29600 `127.0.0.1/8` is good for testing IPv4 localhost, plus add whatever IPs you want to serve SMB on. – sysadmin1138 Jul 08 '11 at 16:25
  • `interfaces = 127.0.0.1/8` didn't change anything... still getting the `NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED` – user29600 Jul 08 '11 at 16:37
  • I must have missed something in the tutorial. I've now gotten rid of the `NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED` all together without the `interfaces` options. Now working on `NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE` will post back later. – user29600 Jul 08 '11 at 18:25