[Samba] AIX starting and stopping samba from command line

[William Jojo]

Tim Evans wrote:
> BeefStu BeefStu wrote:
>> All:
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>> I am running on an AIX 5.3 platform and I am looking to see if 
>> anybody has a script similar to this (see below) that will work under 
>> AIX.
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>> My goal is, on boot up I want to have samba started automatically. 
>> Can somebody let me what I have to do (on AIX) for this to happen.
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You can try the following (from several sources)

/usr/bin/mkssys -s nmbd -p /opt/pware/sbin/nmbd -a '-F -s /opt/pware/lib/smb.conf' -u 0 -S -n 15 -f 9 -R -G samba
/usr/bin/mkssys -s smbd -p /opt/pware/sbin/smbd -a '-F -s /opt/pware/lib/smb.conf' -u 0 -S -n 15 -f 9 -R -G samba
/usr/bin/mkssys -s smbd -p /opt/pware/sbin/winbindd -a '-F -s /opt/pware/lib/smb.conf' -u 0 -S -n 15 -f 9 -R -G samba

This gives you the ability to do::

startsrc -s smbd

stopsrc -s winbindd

stopsrc -g samba

startsrc -g samba


Assuming, of course, that you want to use the IBM way of managing daemons with SRC.


Then you could add "startsrc -g samba" to inittab like:

samba:2:once:/usr/bin/startsrc -g samba >/dev/console 2>&1


This can be done with:

mkitab "samba:2:once:/usr/bin/startsrc -g samba >/dev/console 2>&1"


Just some thoughts...


Cheers,


Bill




> We start it from the /etc/rc.tcpip script.