samba - Aug 2003 - Win2k patch

Helllo guys,

Ive installed samba unfortunately without SWAT... i
dont know how taht happened, bu the cd that came with
the RH 7.2 just did not come with SWAT.  So i tweaked
the smb.conf file in my RH 7.2 and restarted all the
deamons.  

I used two linus books, one was a book called the
complete reference by Peterson from Mc Graw Hill and
another book called RH 7.2 bible, im not sure of the
name ofthe author of this book. By the way, I think
i'm using a samaba version 2.X or 2.2 something like
that.

But anyway, so i created a guest password and i
created a samba password and all and then i restarted
the snm and nmb service.  The thing is, my win2k
server can see the samba server but when i  click on
the server from the win2k Professional machine I cant
access anything. I get an error msg saying its not
accesible.

My question is, 

1) do i need to install a patch at the win2k machine?
If I do, boy did the authors miss that one out big
time!!!

2)If its not the patch, what is it then?

3) How do i know what is the version of samba am I
currently Linux?

4) Samba is dependent on distribution or kenel or
something else?

Please do help me in this. My questions and your
answers would help a lot of people. I'm going to post
it at the following yahoo groups to help others.

1) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LinuxMalaysia/ 
(Linux advocates in Malaysia)

2) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux_study/  (People
who are studying for Linux certs)

3)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux_samba_networking/
(People who are trying to install samba or something
like that)

Thanks in advance.

Warmest regards,

Samir
(Malaysia)
 Please do help.


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On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:17:46AM -0700, irfan khan
wrote:
> Helllo guys,
> 
> Ive installed samba unfortunately without SWAT... i
> dont know how taht happened, bu the cd that came with
> the RH 7.2 just did not come with SWAT.  So i tweaked
> the smb.conf file in my RH 7.2 and restarted all the
> deamons.
I'm really sure swat is on your redhat-cds. RH packages swat separately
in a "samba-swat" package IIRC. It' not installed by default.
> 1) do i need to install a patch at the win2k machine?
> If I do, boy did the authors miss that one out big
> time!!!
AFAIK, no.
> 
> 2)If its not the patch, what is it then?
There are many possibilities. Read the documentation that comes with
samba (in /usr/doc/samba* or /usr/share/doc/samba* or ...). There is a
file DIAGNOSIS.txt which gives you a small step-by-step help in
debugging.
> 
> 3) How do i know what is the version of samba am I
> currently Linux?
This is quite a vital information if you want usefull feedback from any
mailing list. If I don't know a program's version, I try the GNU way:
/path/to/programm --version
Even if that does not work, probably a help message is printed telling
me the right options. In case of smbd:

wolfi@neptun:~$ /usr/sbin/smbd --version
/usr/sbin/smbd: invalid option -- -
Usage: /usr/sbin/smbd [-DaioPh?V] [-d debuglevel] [-l log basename] [-p port]
       [-O socket options] [-s services file]
	-D                    Become a daemon (default)
	-a                    Append to log file (default)
	-i                    Run interactive (not a daemon)
	-o                    Overwrite log file, don't append
	-h                    Print usage
	-?                    Print usage
	-V                    Print version
	-d debuglevel         Set the debuglevel
	-l log basename.      Basename for log/debug files
	-p port               Listen on the specified port
	-O socket options     Socket options
	-s services file.     Filename of services file

This tells you that -V is the option you want:

wolfi@neptun:~$ /usr/sbin/smbd -V
Version 2.2.3a-12.3wjq for Debian

For version 3 of samba --version will also work:

wolfi@neptun:~$ /usr/sbin/smbd --version
Version 3.0.0beta2-1 for Debian

Another way to find this option is reading the man-page (man smbd).

You can also ask your package manager what he thinks is installed. Since
you are using rpm, this is 
rpm -qa | grep samba

But be carefull, if you compiled samba by hand via make / make install, 
the package manager won't tell you the truth. Also, then your smbd is not in
/usr/sbin but somewhere under /usr/local.
> 
> 4) Samba is dependent on distribution or kenel or
> something else?
More or less. Samba uses libraries. The location and versions of these libraries
differ from distribution to distribution. Samba gets the information about this 
in the configure step at compile time. Exept you want to compile it
yourself, what is difficult if you are at the beginning of your
linux-career. You should take the packages suitable for your distribution. Look 
at your cds or if you want another version than contained therein, look
at www.samba.org or the homepage of your distributor.

HTH,

Wolfi