problem in samba configuration
 

Hello all
i am trying to install samba on fedora 6.though the package is installed and i have modified smb.conf file after that i added smbuser,,the problem is when i try to restart smb service through command "/etc/init.d/smb restart" it gives me error no such file or directly. i have checked services in init.d ,,but smb service is not present there,what should i do now.any help will be highly appreciated

Please do not put statements like this in your post. We are not being paid for this service and we will reply to you when we can. Statements like yours are extremely irritating and won't get you replies any quicker.

For what it's worth, on my system there is no "smb" in /etc/init.d but there is /etc/init.d/samba

Perhaps that's what you need to try.
jdk

sorry

and one more thing there is no samba as well in init.d

Might be a silly question - but do you actually have Samba installed? I'm using Fedora 10/11 (depending on machine) and I have the /etc/init.d/smb service sitting there.

What about under /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb?

yes it is installed,,i tried 3 diff rpms but still i am not able to restart the service

when you use the following command what do you in the output

rpm -q samba

if you get the samba with the version then its installed

Applying this command gives me "samba is not installed" but when i use rpm -qa|grep samba ,,it gives me version.if u r saying samba is not installed then what steps should i take to install it. i am using samba-common 3.0 and i have installed it through rpm -ivh samba-common and it gives me 100% success.i dont know what to do.

okay did you try to find the smb.conf file or tried to start the samba daemon.

yes i have modified smb.conf file present in samba directory under etc but i dont know about samba deamon//?????

Have a look at this post might be of help
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...pperly-740453/

These are the key command

yum install samba

should install all the dependancies.

you should read some documentation about, SAMBA and I have accepted your request to be a friend.

thanks
shahz

thanks alot ,and samba is deriving me nuts i have spend more than 2 weeks on this project nd still on zero

i have tried this many times,,and this command gives "samba is already installed"

Dear mehnaz

Try to run following

root# smbd -D&
root#nmbd -D&

Above command will start smbd and nmbd as deamon which is same as 'service smb start'

if above given command not respond then use following
#which smbd
which give you path when smbd exist. If it reply in negative that mean either samba not installed or 'smbd' path is not included in your enviromental variable PATH

thanks

okay try this command also

#service smb start

what results you get

thankx alot,,my problem is solved

when i was o rhel5 . This command give result " unrecognized service"

Dear mehnaz
if 'service smb start' is not working, that means script file /etc/init.d/smb is missing. /etc/init.d/smb script file help in starting and stopping smb service. 'service smb start' also does the same work as 'smbd -D&' and 'nmbd -D'. To stop running samba use following command
kill <samba process id>. To get samba process id use command 'more /var/run/smbd.pid'.
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thanks