Samba Server

Forum: Networking
Topic: Samba Server
started by: nliebherr

Posted by nliebherr on Mar. 01 2006,16:45

Hello!
Can anyone explain how to install and configure the samba server, so i can view shares from a windows client?
I downloaded the samba.dsl which gives me the LinNeighborhood, but this seems only to make windows-shares available to linux, or am i missing something?

I found the smb.conf file which talks about behaviour as a server and configuration of changes, but how do i "activate" the configuration?

Until now i only used Suse Linux, there i could do a /etc/init.d/smb (re)start, but i do not find anything comparable under DSL...

Please give me some help... thanks...

Posted by dtf on Mar. 01 2006,17:18

Assuming you configured you smb.conf correctly you can start it up with

smbd start
nmbd start

There are other options that can be used but I just use these.

You can stop with smbd stop and nmbd stop also there is a restart
arguement.

Posted by nliebherr on Mar. 02 2006,09:16

Ohh, that was easy :-)
I expected smbd/nmbd to be scripts in /etc/init.d, so i didn't look further after i did not find them there...

Thanks again, samba works now!

Posted by godfearerdsl on June 16 2006,04:25

I am having the same original problem as nleibherr was having; not being able to get the samba server to work so that windows machines could see the drives on the DSL computer. I am still having some issues though.

I have a frugal install and found smbd located at:

/ramdisk/usr/sbin/smbd
/ramdisk/usr/sbin/nmbd

nmbd is in the same folder. I put the full path in the .xinitrc file like this (before the fluxbox calls):

/ramdisk/usr/sbin/smbd start &
/ramdisk/usr/sbin/nmbd start &

However, after rebooting and looking at the services running using the TOP command, I see no evidence of any samba stuff running and I can't see this computers drive information from other computers.

So, do you think there is a problem in how I am making the call to smbd or nmbd or is there something missing in the smb.conf file?

Posted by linux4all on April 21 2007,21:29

godfearerdsl,
After looking at the file .xinitrc, I noticed that the line that starts with dillo uses full addresses which do not include the "/ramdisk" beginning. I would try modifying your .xinitrc entry to look like this:

/usr/sbin/smbd start &
/usr/sbin/nmbd start &

Hopefully that will solve your startup problem.

I'm assuming that your shares worked ok when you started samba from the command line.

Posted by andrewb on April 22 2007,23:38

smbd & nmbd need to be exectued as root. You ned to put:

sudo smbd start &

sudo nmbd start &

in your bootlocal.sh or .xinitrc file

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on April 23 2007,02:27

bootlocal.sh gets executed with root privileges on system wide startup (so you wont need sudo there)

.xinitrc is on a user basis for X startup, but should be used only for X apps (see .bash* instead)