samba - Aug 2002 - config problems

I would like to set up  a small local network thru my router.  I'm using 
Mandrake 8.2 and have Samba 2.2.3a  installed. I would like to network 
to my main machine Windows 98.  At present I don't have smbd running or 
nmbd. I don't see how to get them running. I'm a newbie so I have 
trouble getting around in shell. I'm trying to make athe switch from M$ 
to linux.  Any help would be appreciated.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott [mailto:scott@scrollsawart.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 11:34 PM
> To: samba@lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] config problems
> 
> 
> I would like to set up  a small local network thru my router. 
>  I'm using 
> Mandrake 8.2 and have Samba 2.2.3a  installed. I would like 
> to network 
> to my main machine Windows 98.  At present I don't have smbd 
> running or 
> nmbd. I don't see how to get them running. I'm a newbie so I have 
# service start smbd
# service start nmbd

to automatically start it on bootup

# chkconfig smbd on
# chkconfig nmbd on

i think, just make sure with the man pages



adriaan

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| From: Adriaan.Putter@aventis.com
| To: scott@scrollsawart.com, samba@lists.samba.org
| Subject: RE: [Samba] config problems
| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:07:00 +0200
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|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Scott [mailto:scott@scrollsawart.com]
|> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 11:34 PM
|> To: samba@lists.samba.org
|> Subject: [Samba] config problems
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|> I would like to set up  a small local network thru my router.
|>  I'm using
|> Mandrake 8.2 and have Samba 2.2.3a  installed. I would like
|> to network
|> to my main machine Windows 98.  At present I don't have smbd
|> running or
|> nmbd. I don't see how to get them running. I'm a newbie so I have

Did you try running the mandrake tools, such as Mandrake Control
Center->System->Services? You actually get asked at the end of
installation (at least in expert mode).
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| # service start smbd
| # service start nmbd

Actually:

# service smb start
(will start both smbd and nmbd)

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| to automatically start it on bootup
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| # chkconfig smbd on
| # chkconfig nmbd on

# chkconfig smb on
should do.


Btw, your next step should be:

# smbpasswd -a <username>

for all the users who are going to access the Mandrake box from windows.
This assumes that a unix account of the same name exists, and also that
this name corresponds with the name the user logs into Windows with.

Please take a look at /etc/samba/smb.conf before you go and stuff up a
pretty good default file with SWAT.

Buchan

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