[Samba] New install smbd does not run seen 1000 times on this ml

[David W. Brown]

Hello Samba gurus, I have freshly installed Samba from .tar.gz. The configure, make, make install went without error. I have the /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb script installed and when the script is executed (smb start) the following error condition is returned. I searched  on the mail-archive.com and the http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ but only found references but no replies with any helpful information. I know this question has been discussed 1000 times or more on the Samba mail archives but I have exhausted my ideas. I have another Linux box with the exact same Samba installation that works OK (a mystery). Please advise, David.

Starting SMB services: execvp: No such file or directory

OS: rh 7.2
Samba version: 3.02