Re: reinstall of samba or extracting smb.conf

[Roger Searle]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

i figured out that the samba.conf file was in the samba-common rpm file
with mc, there's an info file there that lists the contents, but I never
saw how to extract a file.
   

just use f5 to copy to a real directory!

copying to a directory was no problem - I still couldn't see how to 
extract a single file from an rpm...



 

no problem anyway.  once i erased all the packages (after resolving all
the dependencies by removing those dependent packages first) i just did
a reinstall via the gui after inserting the redhat install disk.  now
for the successful configuration which i'll leave for the weekend . . .
   

thats a problem, you shouldn't have needed to do that! did you try -U first?

i tried -U when was far more confused than i am now!  i'll just put it 
to experience (of which i have very little in this OS).  this all makes 
me feel stupid, especially late at night (i'm not *that* silly). 

just like my windows journey - a) breaking things --> b) having to 
figure out how to fix it --> c) persevering --> d) getting good at it  
--> e) being the guy who answers other people's stupid questions.

thanks for your help.




 

If those fail try rpm -Uvh samba-common-2.2.7a-7.9.0.i386.rpm (vh is
just making it prettier, U is Update). You may also need the
--replacepkgs switch.