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Really quick SAMBA question

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beer

Lifer
I am a kn00b running Mandrake 8.2.

I have correctly modified samba.conf and have started the lisa daemon on my DHCP network. I can browse the network and see myself, but not my 3 MS boxes. I can get on the net through my router, so my networking is correct. I think all I have left to do is START the samba service but there is no luck typing in 'smbd' in the console. How do I get this service started??

Please don't respond with 'RTFM' - I've done a good bit of research on this.
 
Try:

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

That should get your daemon up and running. Afterwards run 'ps -ef | grep smb' to see if smbd is running.
 
Alright, I was missing an installed component, but after I installed it that line worked.

Now I'm getting 'Error: cannot find parent item lan://localhost in tree. Internal Error.'

BUT I can see the linuxbox in my XP Net Neighborhood! 🙂 (thats good)
 
I'm guessing that "lan://localhost" is a URL you're using in some Linux GUI based Microsoft Network Browser? What's the actual hostname of your machine? If its any different from localhost type that in to see if that works. Plus, the easiest way of checking would be to try the IP address of your linux box.

HTH
 
How much research could you have done if you dont know how to start the deamon? 😛 BTW, there is a howto on this in our FAQ stickied at the top.
 
I could use linuxconf to configure samba, but when I went to rc.d/init.d/smb start, the shell reported that it wasn't there. Inadvertendly, I went to right click -> properties -> share and it installed some more samba components. Once those components were installed, <path>smb start worked just fine. I figured that if linuxconf let me configure samba, then it must have been installed, and to start samba in mandrake required a different directory or possibly a different filename, since /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start did not work. Turns out that I was missing components.

After those packages were installed it worked.
 
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