[Samba] Issues with de-installation...

[John H Terpstra]

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 22:31, Madhusudan, R wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Following the instructions given in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection, I installed
> Samba 3.0.10 using the images generated on my system.
>
> Whenever I try to start either "nmbd" or "smbd" by hand, they seem to
> exiting immediately. I searched for information on diagnosing this problem,
> but didn't find any.
>
> Am I missing something here? Any suggestions on what the problem could be?

On your system execute:

	smbd -b | grep smb.conf

then check that your smb.conf file is in that location.

- John T.

>
> Thanks,
> Madhu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruno Guerreiro [mailto:bruno.guerreiro at ine.pt]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 4:37 PM
> To: Madhusudan, R
> Cc: 'samba at lists.samba.org'
> Subject: RE: [Samba] Issues with de-installation...
>
> Well,
> The best way woul be to recompile the sources for eache machine, unless you
> ABSOLUTELY sure they are equal at software level.
> So, you'll just have to uncompress the source
> run the configure script with the options you wish then make, make install.
> Check this.
> http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/compiling.html
> In fact you should check this
> http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ for almost your
> samba related question :-)
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Bruno Guerreiro
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Madhusudan, R [mailto:r.madhusudan at hp.com]
> Sent: terça-feira, 22 de Março de 2005 10:55
> To: Bruno Guerreiro; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: [Samba] Issues with de-installation...
>
>
> Hello,
>
> >>About your second question, i just don't understand what you mean
>
> Suppose that I built the samba executables using the sources. If I want
> to use these images to install and run samba, unlike the usual way of
> using RPMs, how do I do it?
>
> Thanks,
> Madhu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruno Guerreiro [mailto:bruno.guerreiro at ine.pt]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 4:14 PM
> To: Madhusudan, R; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: [Samba] Issues with de-installation...
>
> Well,
> Try rpm -e samba system-config-samba samba-swat
> Since those are samba managing packages and you don't want samba...
>
> About your second question, i just don't understand what you mean.
>
> Best regards,
> Bruno Guerreiro
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Madhusudan, R [mailto:r.madhusudan at hp.com]
> Sent: terça-feira, 22 de Março de 2005 10:38
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Issues with de-installation...
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a system running FC2 with SAMBA-3.0.10-1.fc2 installed on it. I
> tried de-installing it, but it failed as follows:
>
> [root at cobra /]# rpm -e samba
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         samba is needed by (installed)
> system-config-samba-1.2.22-0.fc2.1
>         samba = 0:3.0.10 is needed by (installed)
> samba-swat-3.0.10-1.fc2
>
> Can anyone suggest how I could go about de-installing the kit?
>
> Also, how would I install and use SAMBA on a Linux system if all I had
> were the images I built using the sources? What are the steps I need to
> follow here?
>
> Thanks,
> Madhu
>
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