Samba service failed with error "directory_create_or_exist: mkdir failed on directory /run/samba/ncalrpc: No such file or directory"
Issue
- samba service unable to start
- Failure to start smb.service with below errors
May 12 09:53:01 server.local smbd[21126]: [2022/05/12 09:53:01.244096, 0] ../../lib/util/util.c:208(directory_create_or_exist)
May 12 09:53:01 server.local smbd[21126]: directory_create_or_exist: mkdir failed on directory /run/samba/ncalrpc: No such file or directory
May 12 09:53:01 server.local smbd[21126]: [2022/05/12 09:53:01.244378, 0] ../../source3/smbd/server.c:2074(main)
May 12 09:53:01 server.local smbd[21126]: Failed to create pipe directory /run/samba/ncalrpc - No such file or directory
May 12 09:53:01 server.local systemd[1]: smb.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
May 12 09:53:01 server.local systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Samba
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