Samba Newbie

[Dennis K Grow]

Seems samba isn't running.
So it starts at boot:
chkconfig --level 345 smb on

to start it now:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start

Dennis

Kevin Barry wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
> instructions:  http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba

--
Dennis K. Grow
RedHat 7.2  Kernel: 2.4.13  KDE: 2.2-10  ALSA: 0.5.11
 11:05am  up 20 min,  5 users,  load average: 0.25, 0.65, 0.64
------------------------------------------------------------