Clustered samba resoures fail to start with socket errors

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Issue

  • Trying to start Samba resources managed by Red Hat Cluster Suite (RHCS) results in errors like the following:
    smbd     lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(822)
    smbd     bind failed on port 445 socket_addr=
    smbd     error = address already in use
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5
  • Red Hat Cluster Suite
  • Multiple Samba resources managed by RHCS

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