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I am trying to use samba to set up a file server that will house the 'My Documents' folders for the windows machines on my home network. I am running Fedora Core 5 and I was trying to get SWAT to work so I used yum to update to the newest version of samba and installed swat as well. Now the smb service says "FAILED" when I try to restart it. I uset testparm onthe smb.conf file and it says the file is OK. The firewall is turned off. Any suggestions? I am a total linux newbie, so please be nice. Thanks
Thanks for the responses. I get this when I do the chkconfig --list | grep smb
smb 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:off 6:off
I don't know what that means though...
When I restart it, both the shutdown and start fail for SMB but NMB is OK.
I fixed it. evidently there was a dependency that yum hadn't taken care of. I used 'yum -y upgrade' and updated everything and now it works. It doesn't work quite like I want it to, but that's for another thread. Thanks!
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