Kdebase config cant find samba but.....

DS1 · 08-29-2005, 11:32 PM

hello, I'm compiling kde 3.4.2, I downloaded the latest samba from the site and compiled + installed it, when running kde configure it cant seem to find the samba.

how can I make it see samba?

thnaks

dagg
p.s. I dont want to install samba deb.

Nathanael · 08-30-2005, 02:29 AM

why do you not configure samba via the command line?

DS1 · 08-30-2005, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Nathanael
why do you not configure samba via the command line?

please elabotare..... maybe I did it not sure

thanks

dagg

Nathanael · 08-30-2005, 02:51 PM

well... you open up a terminal or go to a tty (such as tty1) and go to /etc/samba
type
vim smb.conf
and start editing...
if you have problems either man samba or man smb.conf you will find a lot of usefull info in these files, but generally smb.conf already holds some comments which can be helpful

DS1 · 08-30-2005, 11:22 PM

ok will try, but you say that if the file isnt configured, the program cant be "detected"?

dagg

Nathanael · 08-31-2005, 03:37 AM

perhaps kde is looking for smb.conf cannot find it and does not show samba - but i highly doubt that kde could be that bad! type 'whereis samba' and check where the executables are, if you cannof find them they might be in /usr/local/samba/bin
make a symlink into /usr/bin and restart kde

DS1 · 08-31-2005, 05:01 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Nathanael
perhaps kde is looking for smb.conf cannot find it and does not show samba - but i highly doubt that kde could be that bad! type 'whereis samba' and check where the executables are, if you cannof find them they might be in /usr/local/samba/bin
make a symlink into /usr/bin and restart kde

I'm compiling KDE so I cant restart it.
it is an problem in the configure stage

dagg

Nathanael · 08-31-2005, 07:17 AM

doubt it - should be dynamic...

jdogpc · 08-31-2005, 06:45 PM

Hi DS1 can you please post the configure options gives you for samba proposes I think KDE is trying to find smbmount and it can't
Check if you can tell configure were samba is installed.

JdogPC

DS1 · 08-31-2005, 11:38 PM

thanks but I fixed it, for some reason, when I compiled it from source kde didnt found libsmbclient, so I had to un install it and use the version thats in debian debs, install samba + dependecies, smbclient and libsmbclient (not that I wanted to do that, I prefer to compile from source).

dagg