For RH 7.0, to start smb,
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
This script will initiate smbd and nmbd.
To start smb at boot, you could
chkconfig --level 345 smb on
then when you start on level 3, 4, or 5, smb will start automatically
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> Thanks Michael Rock Your last message basically said go back and start over
> with the HOWTOs. I did. Thanks for the good advice.
>
> Unfortunately though starting over produced more questions.
>
> I went off to The SAMBA Project Documentation at
>
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html
>
> and obtained a copy of their HOWTO (well actually I did this part several
> weeks ago).
> Anyway I started re-verifying that everything was set up correctly.
>
> To the untrained eye smb.conf appeared to be set up correctly and was found
> at /etc/services.
> testparm appeared to run correctly and I am assuming for this post that that
> is a valid statement.
> /etc/services had netbios-ssn 139/tcp and netbios-ssn 137/udp
>
> Things looked good until I reached Step 5 at 1.6.1 Starting smbd and nmbd.
>
> But when I checked on /etc/inetd.conf there was no such file.
>
> Also the HOWTO states that this file may vary depending on the distribution.
>
> The example given says to add the following two lines:
>
> netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root
> /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd smbd
>
> netbios-ssn dgram upd wait root
> /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd nmbd
>
> I would appreciate suggestions.
>
> First, how does one verify that smbd and nmbd are are are not running.
>
> If they are not running should the file inetd.conf be created or does RH 7.0
> use some other method to start smbd and nmbd?
>
> Thanks
> Frank
>
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