Reinstalling Samba?

john_d13 · 12-18-2004, 11:02 AM

How do I reinstall samba other than from Gnome, when I try it tells me redhat-samba-config is missing , meanwhile it is there and it works, is there anyother way maybee via console?

rjlee · 12-18-2004, 11:11 AM

This depends on how the software was installed in the first place.

On RPM systems, try

Code:

su -c 'rpm --erase samba && rpm --install samba'

You may have to add other packages after “samba” depending on your distribution.

john_d13 · 12-18-2004, 07:48 PM

when i try that this is what is says

error: Failed dependencies:
samba is needed by (installed) redhat-config-samba-1.0.4-1

the main problem im having is I cannot connect to any of my windows shares, workgroup shows up but thats all. I did not make any changes whatsoever, i was working fine.

windows is able to connect to my linux box however.

weird

rjlee · 12-19-2004, 05:02 PM

As I understand it, Samba is not used to connect to Windows shares, only to create your own SMB shares on Linux.

The problem probably lies either with your firewall configuration (you may be blocking incoming SMB and/or NMB packets) or with your /etc/fstab file (if you have set up mount-points for specific Windows shares). Also, make sure that the SMB username/password that you are using is registered on the Windows network.