At 04:36 PM 7/17/00 , you wrote:
>I think I broke my 6.2 install! I was trying to get Samba working and now
>when I try to run linuxconf I get a segmentation fault. Any advice? I
>guess I could just go ahead and reinstall, I could use the practice anyway,
>but I figure I would learn more by trying to fix it. The only conf file
>that I manually edited was inetd, I added the line on that it says to add in
>the newbie how to. I tried taking it back out and it still doesn't work.
>Thanks for any help.
I don't use Linxconf much, but I think you'd learn a lot more by getting
Samba working by hand and if bad input is killing linuxconf then you will
have to reinstall the entire OS to solve the problem. I have gotten Samba
working a couple times so it is not hard. How is it not working? Here are
the steps, as I recall them:
1) install all the samba packages (samba-2.xxx.rpm, samba-server-2.xxx.rpm,
& samba-client-2.xxx.rpm)
2) edit the /etc/smb.conf file to your liking. see the docs in
/usr/doc/samba-2.xxx and man smb.conf. Especially read the files on 95/97
passwords and encryption.
3) run /usr/bin/testparm and make sure it looks OK).
4) start/restart Samba ('/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start (or restart))
5a) everything is cool; do a find computers in W95/97 and find your host
and it's shares
5b) something is not cool; look in /var/log/samba and perhaps /var/log for
recently updated files ('ls -trl /var/log/samba'), read the ends of those
files ('tail -50 /var/log/samba/smb.log').
Or use swatch.
And post here if you have trouble.
-Alan Mead
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