samba - Oct 2003 - help with SMBD!!!

Dear everyone,
    I've been trying to set up Samba server, so that I can access the files 
from
a Windows XP laptop.
    The problem is: after executing /etc/init.d/smb start  or 
/usr/sbin/service smb start
the status report shows that SMBD is not running (NMBD is running). Later, I 
tried
to start SMBD with SWAT, but the problem remains.
    Could anybody give me a hint about how to make SMBD run? I think that's 
the
reason why I can't find the LInux Server on my Windows XP laptop.  By the 
way,
I'm running RedHat 8.0.  I also removed the older version of Samba-2.- and 
installed
a Samba-3.0.0-, but the problem was not resovled.
    Thanks in advance.
     Yours,
                  Xiaobing Feng

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hi,
check your log files, what distro, samba version do you run .....etc
regards
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Xiao-Bing Feng" <f_xb@hotmail.com>
To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 2:16 AM
Subject: **SPAM** [Samba] help with SMBD!!!

> Dear everyone,
>     I've been trying to set up Samba server, so that I can access the
files
> from
> a Windows XP laptop.
>     The problem is: after executing /etc/init.d/smb start  or
> /usr/sbin/service smb start
> the status report shows that SMBD is not running (NMBD is running). Later,
I
> tried
> to start SMBD with SWAT, but the problem remains.
>     Could anybody give me a hint about how to make SMBD run? I think
that's
> the
> reason why I can't find the LInux Server on my Windows XP laptop.  By
the
> way,
> I'm running RedHat 8.0.  I also removed the older version of Samba-2.-
and
> installed
> a Samba-3.0.0-, but the problem was not resovled.
>     Thanks in advance.
>      Yours,
>                   Xiaobing Feng
>
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