Starting Samba for Redhat 7.x is normally done from a script  
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start

BUT 

You need to create/configure the smb.conf file in /etc/samba/smb.conf 
or samba will die silently

Cheers

Richard S

On 31 Aug 2002 at 13:57, Bill Evans wrote:

> Thanks Matthew
> 
> Sorry to be so dense but I don't understand what you mean by
> "Neither samba-client*.rpm nor samba-common*.rpm match -- so you haven't
> installed the samba daemon."
> 
>  I have now issued the command
> rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/samba-2*.rpm
> 
> Did that install the samba daemon ?
> 
> setup ... systemservices  now lists smb, and I have selected it
> I rebooted
> 
> /usr/bin/samba start  returns
>     No such file or directory
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> > > samba-2.0.7-21ssl.i386.rpm
> > > samba-client-2.0.7-21ssl.i386.rpm
> > > samba-common-2.0.7-21ssl.i386.rpm
> >
> > > I have issued the commands
> > > rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/samba-client*.rpm
> > > rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/samba-common*.rpm
> >
> > Neither samba-client*.rpm nor samba-common*.rpm match
> > samba-2.0.7-21ssl.i386.rpm -- so you haven't installed the samba daemon.
> 
> 
> 


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