Samaba sharing is disabled after reboot, with incorrect share config

Question

Hi all,
I bought my macbook pro with OS X 10.4. Ever since I've upgraded, I'm unable to get my samba server to work correctly. I have a Cent OS server running samba, and all my other clients can connect to it, so I know its not an issue with the Windows clients. I would like to share my Movies folder so my wife can watch videos I download. Some are in iTunes, some are Divx. I've done the following.
1. Go to System Preferences -> Sharing
2. Under "shared folders", I click the plus and add the directory "Movies"
3. I set my account to "read only" and "everyone" to "read only"
4. Go to System Preferences -> Accounts
5. Select Guest Account and check "Allow guests to connect to shared folders". I leave guest login disabled.
6. Reboot
With the above steps, I expect that the only share listed would be "Movies" and that I can access it with an anonymous samba client. However, I randomly get folders I'm not expecting. For instance, this is how I tested my setup.
1. On a windows computer I telent to the correct samba ports. "telnet 10.10.1.101 139" and "telnet 10.10.1.101 445". Both connect to the socket, so I'm ok at the firewall level.
2. Test what shares are listed with "smbclient" on my mac. I enter "smbclient -L 10.10.1.101" in the command prompt. When prompted for a password, I just press enter. I get the following output.
$ smbclient -L 10.10.1.101
Password:
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[NINE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-apple]
Sharename Type Comment
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (TODD NINE’s Computer)
todd nine's public folder Disk TODD NINE's Public Folder
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[NINE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-apple]
Server Comment
MACINTOSH-3 TODD NINE
Workgroup Master
NINE
Definitely not what I've configured via the gui! Also, whenever I reboot and go into the sharing gui the "Share files and folders using SMB" is always unchecked. It would seem that my settings are hosed and the gui isn't correctly persisting my settings and restarting the Daemons. I'm not sure which plist files to delete to start with fresh settings, and I'm reluctant to start blasting critical system files without being sure of what I'm doing. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. I've already followed a couple of how to's that worked for most people, but they didn't resolve my issues.
Thanks,
Todd
Message was edited by: tnine

Answer 1

Presumably related to this problem is that if I try to restart the svc it gets disabled.
For example (while tailing /var/svc/log/site-bind9:default.log in background):
bash-3.00# svcs bind9
STATE STIME FMRI
online 3:37:45 svc:/site/bind9:default
bash-3.00# svcadm restart bind9
[ Apr 17 03:38:07 Stopping because service restarting. ]
[ Apr 17 03:38:07 Executing stop method ("/opt/bind/var/svc/method/bind9 stop") ]
[ Apr 17 03:38:07 Method "stop" exited with status 0 ]
[ Apr 17 03:38:07 Disabled. ]
bash-3.00# svcs bind9
STATE STIME FMRI
disabled 3:38:07 svc:/site/bind9:default
Any ideas what is wrong with this svc (manifest posted above) ?