Samba installed on centos or not?

Heba Ezzat · 02-05-2007, 06:48 PM

I use CentOS-4.4 & I know that SAMBA is already installed on centos but while working on this site
http://www.samba.netfirms.com/sambconf.htm
it started by "how do we tell if Samba is installed. The most easiest, open a terminal window and type in the following: smbd -V "

when i tried this command this error appear "bash: smbd: command not found"

i have tried smb.conf and also command not found appear
now i dont know whether SAMBA is installed or not. and if it is already installed on centos why the previous error appears !!!!

please if anyone can help me soon
thnx in advance

Lenard · 02-05-2007, 08:36 PM

A quick check to be sure; rpm -qa 'samba*'

If no results the use yum; yum install samba-swat samba-client

Then smbd -V will work.

billymayday · 02-06-2007, 01:52 AM

It's certainly part of the distro - whether you have it installed is another question

Heba Ezzat · 02-09-2007, 12:30 AM

when I wrote
rpm -qa 'samba*' the output was
samba-client-3.0.10-1.4E.9
samba-common-3.0.10-1.4E.9

I think this means that samba is installed, eventhough, smbd -v cant be executed

I wrote yum install samba-swat as you told me and also smbd -v cant be executed

so what can I do

billymayday · 02-09-2007, 01:11 AM

Same on FC5 machine (CentOS box is off), I get

samba-client-3.0.23c-1.fc5
samba-3.0.23c-1.fc5
samba-common-3.0.23c-1.fc5

So I don't think you're fully installed.

Try yum install samba

Lenard · 02-09-2007, 06:13 AM

The client is installed but the server part is not, follow billmayday's advice with a slight change;

yum install samba samba-swat

Brydon · 02-09-2007, 10:31 AM

Just a thought, did you try testing your configuration as root?

Scott

Heba Ezzat · 02-12-2007, 08:32 AM

i have tried yum install samba samba-swat the output was
Loading "priorities" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
http://dag.linux.iastate.edu/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386dag/
repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>

Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dag
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from dag: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from dag: [Errno256] No more mirrors to try.

Now what i want to know from where i can download samba server component and SWAT component with their dependencies

thnx in advance

Lenard · 02-12-2007, 08:53 AM

Download and install directly then, also use the CentOS-Base repo file found here (it replaces or goes in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory), the samba rpm files can be found under the "os" directory for your arch;

http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4.4/

FYI: your yum configuration for Dag's site looks incorrect or old;

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B