[SOLVED] How to check if samba is installed or not

sumanch · 02-16-2010, 11:17 PM

Hi ,
I want to use samba in one of my linux machines so that I can share my directories in linux in windows machine . How do I check in samba is installed or not . I checked in /etc/init.d directory , I expected smbd executables to be there . But I can't find it there . Does it mean that samba in not intstalled there . Please let me know .

worm5252 · 02-16-2010, 11:22 PM

There are several ways you can check to see if samba is installed.

The easiest way in my opinion is to see if samaba configuration file exist.

Code:

jared@S-FSXX01:~$ ls /etc/samba/
gdbcommands  smb.conf  smb.conf.bak
jared@S-FSXX01:~$

If you have those config files then chances are it is installed.

sumanch · 02-16-2010, 11:26 PM

Yes . The files are there . I also did rpm -qa which is showing the following

samba-common-3.0.33-0.18.el4_8.1
samba-client-3.0.33-0.18.el4_8.1
samba-3.0.33-0.18.el4_8.1

I feel samba is installed . But how do I start the process . I did ps -ef | grep smbd .
I did not see any result . /etc/init.d does not contain smbd . What is the location for smbd executable .

worm5252 · 02-16-2010, 11:30 PM

Samba is indeed installed if rpm -qa returned something.

Depending on the distribution you have you should be able to start samba by 1 of the following ways

Code:

/etc/init.d/samba start

or

Code:

service samba start

sohail0399 · 02-17-2010, 02:23 AM

at CentOS i use this command to start samba service:

through root or admin rights user

/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start

sumanch · 02-17-2010, 03:18 AM

Hi I started it using /usr/sbin/smbd . Thanks .

Carsto · 02-17-2010, 04:59 PM

Thanks, solved an issue I was searching for days.