Janina, It seems I don't have the server, and I don't have any manual pages. Parts of samba seem to be there, but not enough to do any good. Thanks. John On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703