Starting Samba

[Pianoman216]

k, I got samba installed....now how do I run it???

[megerdin]

first u need to edit the
/etc/samba/smb.conf file
then run the command

/etc/init.d/smb start

Now u r ready to browse ur samba share

for details

[Pianoman216]

I cant seem to locate either of those directories. Is there somewhere else it could be? Do I have to make it?

[iwanabeguru]

Hi
I alredy answered you in the testing software topic ,but i write here too.

samba install a startup script into /etc/init.d dir , it's a system dir.
starting samba from terminal

/etc/init.d/samba start

[sikandar]

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