samba deamons
 

when i type in smbd -D and nmbd -D it cannot find it. when i type killall smbd nmbd it says no processes killed. why is this i do testparm and it's ok and of course i have a config file.

when i logged in as root from the beginning log in it worked why did this not work when i used su ??`

Your post is unclear as to what you are trying to do. Are you trying to start samba, stop samba or find out if samba is running?

To start samba try "service smb start" as root rather than starting the processes seperatly

Paul

You are probably using whenis better. If you just su then you don't process the su'ed user's login script, so their path won't be set. As root's path is normally different to a normal user's its failing to find smbd and nmbd.

HTH

Jamie...

testparm only checks syntax and structure of the smb.conf file.

You can use smbclient command to see samba shares on the linux PC.