John: You need to launch the samba server, which is called smb. service smb start should do it. The smbclient program doesn't need to be launched. Do man smbclient to get a handle on it. Once you are satisfied that you've got all the pieces in place, I can write more about actually using samba. On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to install samba on my Redhat 7.1 or maybe 7.1.5 system. I got > the latest Samba-client and samba-common packages from the Redhat site > with up2date. There were no error messages. However I can't find the > daemons that are mentioned in the samba Howto. When I went to the download > site recommended by the howto, the directory names were totally unhelpful. > "rpm -q samba" says that the package is not installed, but when I try to > install the packages from the 7.1 cd's it says that there are newer > versions of the packages already installed. > What's the next step? > Thanks. > John > > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org