Samba service failed to start with error `open_sockets_smbd: No sockets available to bind to.`
Issue
- Unable to start samba service, seeing below error in
/var/log/messages
,
Nov 13 09:51:45 test smbd[4404]: [2019/11/13 09:51:45.506976, 0] ../source3/smbd/server.c:1262(open_sockets_smbd)
Nov 13 09:51:45 test smbd[4404]: open_sockets_smbd: No sockets available to bind to.
Nov 13 09:51:45 test smbd[4404]: [2019/11/13 09:51:45.507690, 0] ../source3/lib/util.c:815(smb_panic_s3)
Nov 13 09:51:45 test smbd[4404]: PANIC (pid 4404): open_sockets_smbd() failed
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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