[Samba] Issues with de-installation...

[John H Terpstra]

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 23:24, Madhusudan, R wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Given below is the output of the command execution:
>
> $ /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -b | grep smb.conf
>    CONFIGFILE: /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
>
> What does this imply?

Well, for starters, your RPM based install would have located the smb.conf 
file in /etc/samba/smb.conf. In other words, when you execute smbd and nmbd 
they do not find your smb.conf file.

>
> I'm coming to realize that installing samba via RPMs does a lot more
> than installing samba using images via "make install" does. Or that I
> need spend some extra time making the system aware of this unconventional
> installation...

Samba is not unconventional, its convention is to install everything 
in /usr/local/samba, all Linux distributions install into the LSB standards 
compliant locations.

>
> What are the additional steps I need to follow to get samba up and running
> with the way I've installed it?

It is always best on RPM systems to install RPMs.

- John T.

>
> Thanks,
> Madhu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces+r.madhusudan=hp.com at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-bounces+r.madhusudan=hp.com at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of
> John H Terpstra Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:10 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Issues with de-installation...
>
> 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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>
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John H Terpstra
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Author:
The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556
Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216
Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971
Other books in production.