Unable to get Samba to update config

[Gerald W. Carter]

YungBlood wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>   A friend of mine helped me to setup Samba enough to see the machine
> on the network neighborhood.  But the shares aren't visible.  I
> changed the smb.conf in /etc /usr/local/etc /usr/local/samba/lib and
> I kill'd -9 both smbd and nmbd, but I never see the changes
> reflected, even after I reboot the Win95 Box.  Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> -Kevin

use the -s switch to smbd & nmbd oto explictly set the 
location of smb.conf.  For example

	smbd -s /etc/smb.conf


Also, I'm assuming you have browseable = yes in the 
service deinfitions


Cheers,
jerry
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                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
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