Devin Rader wrote:
>
> Hey all!
>
> I am trying to set up Samba on my Linux machine but am totally lost.
> is make sure you have the samba package installed correctly by using this
> command:
>
> rpm -q samba
>
> When I run this it says I don't have that package installed.
Nope, you haven't installed the package. This happened to me when I
first installed 7.0--I didn't install smbclient either.
>
> I never have seen the smb file in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory and every
> time I try to start the daemon I get file not found errors.
That's the directory where it would be.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
Search the Mandrake rpm's on your install disks and install samba. It's
on the first disk (3 seperate rpm's--all for the complete samba,
samba,client and common)
>
This is a very useful site for getting samba up and running:
http://www.q-linux.com/Tutorials_Guides/Samba/samba-Diagnosis.html
