by shovelware install, do you mean i chose all the packages? this time (i'm on my 5th or 6th go!) i did install the lot. despite that, i don't seem to have swat on this machine, the swat file you mention below isn't there, i did a search for *swat* and the only file is a swat.pl file in a docs folder. so i assume it doesn't come with the redhat 9 disks?Have you tried using Swat to set up your Samba (assuming you did the "shovelware install")
i'm downloading it now and will play at the first available chance - though with my history of installation challenges, may be back for help soon ;-)
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
