this is only tangentially related to the samba topic, but has anyone noticed what a great product it has become in the past few years? Samba has been here for something like 8 or 10 years, and it used to be a network hog and slow, but now it's frankly, amazing! It's a great example of free software at it's best. while I don't have an array of machines using it now, I recently saw how smoothly a bunch of windows and linux machines can happily coexist. not that it fixes your problems, but let's all lift our java-mugs in salute! -----Original Message----- From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Janina Sajka Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 5:45 PM To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1 It's not called server in the rpm package name. It's just samba-2 ... whatever. Here's my list ... samba-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm@ samba-client-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm@ samba-common-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm@ samba-swat-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm@ [ What happens when you do service smb start On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- 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 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list