RHEL6 HA failes to start or migrate samba resource

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Issue

  • Clustered Samba gives "smbd: error opening config file"
  • I cannot get Samba to start, and thus the windows clients cannot access the volume. Every time it tries to start I see the following error in /var/log/messages:
smbd[31295]:   error opening config file

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 U3
  • Red Hat Cluster Suite (RHCS)

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