What happens when you do:

# service smb start
# netstat -nlpt | grep smbd
# netstat -nlpt | grep nmbd
# smbclient -L //localhost -N

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Thursday, November 2, 2006, 9:13:31 PM, you wrote:

> Howdy,

> I'm trying to install Samba on a FC5 server. Seems like it would be
> very simple with yum ('yum install samba'), but although I get an
> "Complete!" message, I can't find 'smbd' or 'nmbd'. I tried
> 'updatedb' and 'locate smbd' and also 'find / | grep smbd' but still
> no luck. I see that the /etc/samba dir and the init.d scripts were created.



> I just tried another install using yum with debug and error reporting on:


> 'yum -d 6 -e 1 install samba'


> Here's a partial output from yum:
> ...
>   Installing: initscripts                  ######################### [2/3]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/sysconfig/console: cpio: 
> lsetfilecon
>   Installing: samba                                                
> [3/3]warning: /etc/logrotate.d/samba created as /etc/logrotate.d/samba.rpmnew
>   Installing: samba                                                
> [3/3]warning: /etc/pam.d/samba created as /etc/pam.d/samba.rpmnew
>   Installing: samba                                                
> [3/3]warning: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb saved as /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb.rpmorig
>   Installing: samba                                                
> [3/3]warning: /etc/samba/smbusers created as /etc/samba/smbusers.rpmnew
>   Installing: samba                        ######################### [3/3]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file
> /etc/sysconfig/samba;454ab1bd: cpio: open

> Installed: samba.x86_64 0:3.0.23c-1.fc5
> Dependency Installed: initscripts.x86_64 0:8.31.6-1
> samba-common.x86_64 0:3.0.23c-1.fc5
> Complete!


> I'm pretty sure the *.rpmnew files aren't a problem, but what about the 
> errors?

> Any ideas how I should approach debugging this?

> Thanks,
> John Hebert





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