Help Configuring Samba

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 10.11.2004 schrieb Stormblaze um 18:43:

> Took out the spaces in the netbios name. Ran smbpasswd on user nobody.

If you are using Samba users you have to both add (-a) and enable (-e)
them. And a Samba user has too to be a Linux system user as well.

> Tried again. Now swat doesn't show it as running. It starts the nmbd
> just fine but when I tell it to start smbd it launches two processes
> (I check with ps) but it still shows it as not running.

Hm, how do you start / restart your Samba server? I hope you use the
init script: service smb restart.

> If I run smbclient -L localhost I get the same info as I did before.

I don't understand what you expect to see.

Alexander


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