Gilles ha scritto:
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:55:16 +0200, Marcello Romani
<[email protected]> wrote:
A samba init script should take care of restarting both services IMHO,
because they're really supposed to go together. Therefore it's not
strange that they ported to upstart only the "main" init.d script (the
one referring to smbd). That's all IMHO, of course.
That's also what I thought, but /etc/init.d/ contains two separate
scripts (smbd and nmbd; no trace of "samba", as specified in the
Ubuntu documentation www.tinyurl.com/ubuntu-samba-doc), and since
since I couldn't see the shares from Windows, I figured I might have
to launch both separately.
/etc/init.d/smbd doesn't seem to launch nmbd, but I'm no shell expert:
http://pastebin.com/fJB89Uc8
Yes, it seems to care only about the process name it's been given, smbd
in this case. I havent studied upstart so it might also be possible that
somewhere in its configuration it's specified that smbd goes along with
nmbd. But that's just useless speculation...
Tha strange thing is, on my Ubuntu 9.10 desktop machine I have
/etc/init.d/samba
Go figure...
AFAIKT, smbfs is needed only if you want to mount samba shares, i.e. for
using the linux system as a samba *client*, not server. I'm not 100%
sure, though.
Regarding winbind, I find it strange that it didn't get installed along
with the rest of samba...
The problem is that I couldn't find an up-to-date documentation that
would say precisely what needs to be installed in Ubuntu and show a
very basic smb.conf that would work. Docs either assume people will
just append their stuff to the big default smb.conf... and somehow
figure out what packages need to be installed.
I usually do something similar to aptitude search samba and install what
seems to be the "main" package, which hopefully will pull all the
required dependencies. Then I install the -doc package, which tipically
contains the up-to-date docs.
But I'm sure you already know that :-)
Don't know about "available" param, but public and writable shouldn't
affect visibility of the server in windows neighborhood.
I added those because I saw them in some documentation... but at this
point, I'm clueless at what packages are really needed, and what needs
to be done in smb.conf to share a writable folder.
maybe add
guest ok = yes
Actually, I'm seeing something funny... but this is for another
thread.
Thank you all for your help.
Well I think I'll stop here as I don't have ubuntu server at hand. I
hope I've been of some help. Good luck.
--
Marcello Romani
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