Samba Newbie

[Kevin Barry]

I'm in the process of beginning to set up Samba with the aid of the book
Special Edition Using Samba. The problem that I have is that I cannot
get the service to run.

I am using Red Hat 7.2 - kernel 2.4.9-13.

I modified the smb.conf file and get the following when running the
"testparm" command:
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Processing section "[homes]"
Loaded services file OK.
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

The processing section does not mention the [global] section entered as
recommended in the above referenced book. The use of the ntsysv command
does not show an entry for smb. Also any of the samba commands are
responded with "samba: command not found". All other networking works
fine such as ping or internet access. The system sits on a Ethernet
network with 1 each of the following stations: XP, 2000 and ME.

Kevin