Richard Burt wrote: > When i go into mcc/server configuration/samba i am told that samba is not > installed (this happens EVERY time) and to click 'ok' to install. I then have > to setup samba services, workgroup and banner - that is what i mean by > reinitialising! Before doing this, i cannot use linneighborhood or komba2 to > browse my local network. >
Then maybe this is a wizards-lib-samba bug? Just please try this first, and see what happens: # urpme samba-common (removes samba totally) # urpmi samba-server (reinstalls it, so we get a good default configuration) # service smb start # smbpasswd -a <username> Then you machine should be in workgroup 'MDKGROUP' and have it's hostname as it's netbios name. If you connect to it from a windows machine (assuming you use the same <username> in windows and linux), you should be able to see your home directory and a virtual PDF-generating printer (install a generic postscript driver on windows machines to get it to make you a PDF). Now, reboot, and see if you can still do that. If you can't, then maybe there's a problem with samba. If you can, the bug is elsewhere. You should at least try and start samba as follows: # service smb start If that fails, check your logs. It is usually best to run 'tail -f /var/log/syslog' in one terminal while you do things like 'service smb restart'. If there's nothing there, please run 'testparm', and report any errors it lists. Please don't send me the whole output, rather send me the smb.conf file. If this works, hten maybe there is a bug with the samba wizard. I would suggest first backing up your working smb.conf, then running the wizard, verifying that it doesn't work, then mail off the two smb.conf's to the maintainer of the wizards, you can cc me. > >>>Will this be fixed in rc3? >> >>What? Webmin? Last time I tried webmin it was set for /etc/samba/smb.conf > > > I did a fresh install of webmin and the smb.conf was pointing to > /etc/smb.conf, not etc/samba/smb.conf. Webmin is fine! I think not. I just installed samba-server and webmin on a brand new installation, and webmin worked exactly right out the box, without telling it anything about smb.conf. I have: webmin-0.990-6mdk samba-common-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk samba-server-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk samba-client-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk I installed rc2 last week at a school as their primary domain controller, and it's working just fine (we rebooted the server a few times to test that everything works over reboots), so I am quite sure this is not a samba issue. There are one or two issues with samba, but this is not one of them ... and they will all be resolved before final. -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
