Beginners Samba question

[anarcholinuxism]

how do i actually start Samba in RH8.0?

[z0mbix]

One you have correctly configured your /etc/samba/smb.conf file then you can use either:

/sbin/service smb start

or

/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start

You can substitute start for stop, restart or status too.

[anarcholinuxism]

/sbin/service smb start

I get

/etc/init.d/smb: line 2: mymachine: command not found

if I run it as root I get

/etc/init.d/smb: line 2: mymachine: command not found
Starting SMB services: [ OK ]
Starting NMB services: [ OK ]


which I assume means it's starting

and if I run

/sbin/service smb status

I get

/etc/init.d/smb: line 2: mymachine: command not found
smbd (pid 11448) is running...
nmbd (pid 11452) is running...


so what is the significance of the error report and can I or should I do anything about it?

[anarcholinuxism]

Do you know I've actually got samba sort of working now so that I can browse through Network Neighbourhood to my home directory on this Linux box, which has only taken me 2 weeks to do! :)


Apart from that strange error message in my previous post the only other problem I can see is that i have to restart Samba everytime I reboot the box, not strictly a networking problem, but how do I autostart services?

[clinux]

In R.H. 8.0 you shuold have a selection in your menu that says servers or services, select that when it opens one of the following selections will be a services start up menu, when taht opens scroll down to whwere it says smb, click on it (highlight it) and push the start button at the top, also I beleive if you put a check mark in the box it will start up automatically when you reboot each time. I don't remember the name of everything cause I'm not using R.H any more, but I know it's there.

[anarcholinuxism]

Excellent, that was exactly where you said it was and did excatly what you said it would.

Doesn't happen very often :)

[clinux]

Great!, glad I could help!

[ixthus]

Originally posted by clinux
In R.H. 8.0 you shuold have a selection in your menu that says servers or services, select that when it opens one of the following selections will be a services start up menu, when taht opens scroll down to whwere it says smb, click on it (highlight it) and push the start button at the top, also I beleive if you put a check mark in the box it will start up automatically when you reboot each time. I don't remember the name of everything cause I'm not using R.H any more, but I know it's there.

Yes, RH8.0 has me feeling all GUI :D. I'm not at my Linux box right now, so I don't have the correct name either. I'll call it the service menu for the moment. But anyway I'm wondering.

For this newbie, the Services menu is great! Having the magical Off/On reset switch so handy is really nice when trying to configue a service.

[pcghost]

The correct way to do that from the CLI is

/etc/init.d/samba start
or
/etc/init.d/samba stop
or
/etc/init.d/samba restart