Re: [Samba] SAMBA - first time trying to get it working; yes, Iam reading the manuals

[Kurt Weiss]

David Jackson schrieb:
In the docs i have read so far, there are several questions I have and I am
not sure which question I am getting wrong when trying to install and
configure my Red Hat 8 server.
1)in the http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf
document they say you should run $ nroff ?man smbd.8 | more to get the man
pages.  nroff is not supported on my system; however, i was able to get
some man pages of some different sorts.
2) Do i need to build the binaries in Red Hat 8.0 ?
Red Hat 8 has lots of things pre-done; I am not sure if this is one of them.
if u did install the binary package and u want a standard 
installation so u do not need to build - samba is installed

./configure and make u only need for the source package...

the only thing u have to do is to configure smb.conf and start samba...
('service samba start' or 'service smb start')
try man smb.conf for options...

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Re: [Samba] SAMBA - first time trying to get it working; yes, Iam reading the manuals

[Kurt Weiss]

hi david.

if u did install the binary package and u want a standard
installation so u do not need to build - samba is installed  I said 
during the installation that I wanted SAMBA installed.  But beyond that 
step, I have done nothing to my Red Hat 8 system as far as further SAMBA 
installation. Did SAMBA get installed during the installation? When i 
look through my system, I see files that relate to smb which leads me to 
believe it is installed.   Someone had mentioned the command inetd and 
SWAT, but these too were confusing b/c inetd does not exist on Red Hat 
8.  It has been replaced with xinetd.  What would the command be then to 
open SWAT?

*) check if samba is on your system:
which smbd
which nmbd
which smbclient
inetd/xinetd is a tool, which listen to network ports and starts the 
defined program on a request. - (e.g. pop3/smpt).
samba is running always (if it's running) - it does not need 
inetd/xinetd, because it listens to the ports itselves.

SWAT is a help/satatus tool which is running in your webbrowser (if 
started). (i do not use it)
on the linuxbox, where samba is running, u can start it in your browser
http://localhost:901



the only thing u have to do is to configure smb.conf and start samba...
('service samba start' or 'service smb start') THANKS! but how do i 
create the hare and the mount points?
./configure is *not* a tool, where u configure samba shares and else.
./configure is needed in the source package, to configure the Makefile - 
means, *how* is samba compiled. - this is done in a binary package 
already...

shares, servername and else is defined, as mostly in linux/unix 
services, in a text file, which is read from the samba services. this 
file is named 'smb.conf' (means: samba configuration)

in standard use (source), smb.conf lies in /usr/local/samba/lib/
if u use SuSE (e.g. 7.3) - smb.conf is in /etc/
i think, in redhat, smb.conf is in /etc/samba/
u can find it whith 'find / -name smb.conf'
edit this file, to configure samba.
afterwards start samba with 'service samba start' or, if it's running, 
'service samba restart'

have a lot of fun
k
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