RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-08 Thread marvc
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3... Thanks for the help and advice on using the rpm's. The install was a successful one and I'm on my way. Glad this lists exists and that there are generally nice people on it who don't mind helping the newbies

RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-08 Thread D. Rick Anderson
: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3... Thanks for the help and advice on using the rpm's. The install was a successful one and I'm on my way. Glad this lists exists and that there are generally nice people on it who don't mind helping the newbies. -Original Message

RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-07 Thread marvc
again -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tori Williamson Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3... Marv, You do need to run configure for a source

RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-07 Thread marvc
Still No-Go! Still getting timeout and connection refused errors when trying to access this. I also can't find the smb.conf file that's supposed to be located in /usr/local/samba/lib. All I see in this directory is a codepages directory. Could this install have gotten corrupted or am I looking in

Re: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-07 Thread Joel Hammer
Of Tori Williamson Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3... Marv, You do need to run configure for a source tarball... you just haven't found the config script yet. :-) In the samba-2.2.8a

Re: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-07 Thread Tori Williamson
PROTECTED] To: 'Tori Williamson' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 7:06 AM Subject: RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3... Tori Thanks for the mini tutorial on getting started with samba, it helped a great deal as I was able

Re: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-07 Thread Tori Williamson
trouble configuring samba on RH7.3... Still No-Go! Still getting timeout and connection refused errors when trying to access this. I also can't find the smb.conf file that's supposed to be located in /usr/local/samba/lib. All I see in this directory is a codepages directory. Could this install have

Re: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-07 Thread Sameer Zeidat
Try this command to enable swat on RedHat: # chkconfig --level 35 swat on swat is controlled by xinetd. To start it automatically everytime the system start do this: # chkconfig --level 35 xinetd on To start xinetd manually do this: # service xinetd start Finally, check the swat xinetd

RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-07 Thread marvc
Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 4:33 PM To: marvc; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3... Marv, Don't worry. You don't sound lazy, ungrateful or a peasant. This is precisely why the list exists. Besides, I'm

RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-07 Thread Sameer Zeidat
Hi .. I didn't read the whole conversation regarding this problem. So, my advice might not be what you want. However, why are you compiling from source? Why not use RedHat RPM packages instead. It will make your life much easier, and for a newbie the default build config would suffice, I guess.

RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-07 Thread marvc
PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3... Try this command to enable swat on RedHat: # chkconfig --level 35 swat on swat is controlled by xinetd. To start it automatically everytime the system start do this: # chkconfig --level 35

RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-07 Thread Sameer Zeidat
Hi .. Ok .. swat isn't there because you compiled samba and installed it using the default location '/usr/local/samba-2.2.8a' .. so even if you create 'swat' manually my guess is that you'll run into other problems because of this location. For example, the binaries will be under

Re: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-07 Thread Tori Williamson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 4:08 PM Subject: RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3... Hi .. Ok .. swat isn't there because you compiled samba and installed it using the default location '/usr/local/samba-2.2.8a' .. so even

RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-07 Thread marvc
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3... Marv, My vote is with Sameer... read his prior letter and download the 4 rpms and install them. It will TRULY make your life easier. Being that you're using Samba at home, you're not going to gain anything over

RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-07 Thread marvc
: Saturday, June 07, 2003 8:35 PM To: 'Tori Williamson'; 'Sameer Zeidat'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3... I'll try the samba rpm's. I have just one question before I begin, and I apologize in advance if this sounds a little dumb. Once I

RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-07 Thread marvc
: Sunday, June 08, 2003 12:10 AM To: marvc; 'Sameer Zeidat'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3... No worries... installing RPMs is SUPER simple. You'll be happier going this route: Stop samba and delete the dir (I believe /usr/local/samba

[Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-06 Thread marvc
I just downloaded Samba ver2.2.8a onto my RH server and I'm unsure on how to properly configure samba. I've seen documentation online for the older versions which contain instructions for running ./configure, make, and make install. I don't see ./configure in my samba-2.2.8a directory so I'm

Re: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-06 Thread Joel Hammer
What type of file did you download? Maybe its all set to run? Maybe you don't have to configure it? Joel On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:52:31PM -0400, marvc wrote: I just downloaded Samba ver2.2.8a onto my RH server and I'm unsure on how to properly configure samba. I've seen documentation online

RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-05 Thread marvc
; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3... What type of file did you download? Maybe its all set to run? Maybe you don't have to configure it? Joel On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:52:31PM -0400, marvc wrote: I just downloaded Samba ver2.2.8a

Re: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3...

2003-06-05 Thread Tori Williamson
- From: marvc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Joel Hammer' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:48 PM Subject: RE: [Samba] samba newbie having trouble configuring samba on RH7.3... I downloaded the samba-latest.tar from the downloads page and you're right it doesn't look