Have you tried using Swat to set up your Samba (assuming you did the "shovelware install")
Just enable in Xinet.d (edit the file /etc/xinet.d/swat and change the disabled line to no) and restart Xinetd Then point your browser at http://127.0.0.1:901 Log on as root, then you have a graphical setup for Samba with a help system. On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 19:23, Roger Searle wrote: > I'm very confused by the software installation process in linux. I've > followed the suggestion to "man rpm" which only managed to add to the > confusion: which switch to use? Then when I try them, I get conflicting > output. Really all I want is an original copy of the smb.conf file so I > can start again with it but am happy to reinstall samba completely if > that's easier (or can more quickly get help on the right command). > > So far I've managed to get a copy of samba-common-2.2.7a-7.9.0.i386.rpm > from the distro disk (rh9) after determining that this is where smb.conf > is. > > rpm -i [samba-file] > gives me "package is already installed". That's understandable - my > attempt to reinstall won't work that way. So to then try to erase it: > > rpm -e [samba-file] > gives me "package is not installed". I don't get that - I've just been > told previously that this package is already installed! > > So I'm stuck again. Would someone be kind enough to spoon feed me the > commands to either get a copy of smb.conf out of the rpm file, or to > remove and reinstall samba to do the same thing? Both would be great, > so I could understand both processes. > > Roger > > -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, University of Canterbury - Te Whare Waananga o Waitaha Private Bag 4800, Christchurch New Zealand Phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895
