I have found and installed the libcups.so.2. When I installed the samba 2.2.8a-1 it gave me conflick warning with other samba (i thin it was the older version). So I upgrade to samba2.2.8a-1 and when I check with rpm -qa|grep samba it shows the latest samba 2.2.8a-1.

1. Am I doing the correct way??
2. After I upgrade, it give me smb.conf.rpmnew in the /etc/samba. What is this file??
3. Can anyone create me the smb.conf file (I just wanna to connect directly another comp running windows2000 to my linux box for the start) and please tell me where should i put the smb.conf file?
4. How do I start samba??

Thanks Thanks Thanks in advance

1. I am not totally sure if your rpm installation/upgrade went well. But it looks like it did.

2. That smb.conf.rpmnew file is a config file for the new upgraded version that you installed. Now, it does that so it won't automatically write over your old one which might have a lot of customized options in it that you don't want to loose like that (I wouldn't) - So basically its just another example smb.conf file.

3. I can't really "create" a config file for you. But I can direct you to a site that offers a step by step explanation on how to write an smb.conf file and set up your Linux and Win32 boxes to access each share. Here it is: http://samba.netfirms.com - Your completed customized smb.conf file should be put in /etc/samba

4. How do you start samba - I am assuming you are using red hat so the command would be:

$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
Or to restart:
$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart
Or to stop:
$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop
Or to check status:
$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb status

You must be logged in as root to execute those commands.

Good luck

I tried to run the samba program as you described but when I run "smb start" in /etc/rc.d/init.d, it says smb command not found. Now I am confuse...again

Well, I am not completely familiar with Mandrake Linux and how it lays out system / server scripts. It could be samba start.

Do a directory listing of /etc/rc.d/init.d/ to see if there is anything related to smb or samba.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb <option> is common in Red Hat-based systems. Which is what Mandrake was originall branched from.

Ok. I looked more deeply into the world of Mandrake (via MandrakeExpert.com) and found how to start and stop samba:

as root:

$ service smb <options>

<options> being one of the following: start stop restart

If you're actually in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory you'll have to prefix the command with ./ so make it

./smb start
./smb stop
./smb restart
,/smb status