[ale] weird problem with Suse 8.2 and Samba

[Geoffrey]

Van L. Loggins wrote:
> after reading all of the comments on the ALE mailing list, I used the 
> url link that was
> provided in a previous ale message to download the 8.2 ISO images and I 
> installed it on
> my file server system at the house to try it out.
> 
> can someone enlighten me as to how to properly set up samba on a Suse 
> system.  I've done it several times on Redhat 8.0 and 9.0 without a 
> whole lot of difficulty.
> 
> I installed webmin and I've got my samba config file set up identical to 
> how I had
> it set up before on RH 8.0 and 9.0.
> 
> I looked to see if there was any services that I needed to start in webmin
> but I didn't find the samba service even though samba is installed. I do 
> have SMB and SMBFS running.

Are the daemons running? (ps aux|grep mb)  You should see at least one 
smbd and one nmbd process.

You can start up samba by running:

/etc/init.d/nmb start
/etc/init.d/smb start

Are you trying to figure out how to start them at boot?

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