Samba

I am not sure what is wrong, but i can't even get samba to start. I am running redhat 7.1. I know you have to go to /etc/rc.d/init.d/smaba start. How can I make sure it is installed? When i went to install it off the cd, it says it is already installed. Thanks.

Then what happens when you run /etc/rc.d/init.d/samba start?

No such file or directory. There is no samba in the dir init.d.

Oh yeah, right... It's really /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb, not samba. Hey, don't go around confusing me like that! =)
By the way, instead of running it the long way like that, you can also run it with "service smb start".

its ok, I understood what you meant. but thats not the problem, there isn't a file called samba or smb. Which means samba isn't installed correct? If so, then how come when i went to install is from the cd, it said error, already installed?

What's the output of "rpm -V samba samba-common"?

Haha. not installed. So how come when I went to install it, I get the error message: package samba-common-2.0.7-36 is already installed?

I've got no idea. Try installing with -U instead of -i.

grrreat. anybody else?

lets go out on a limb here

rpm -qa | grep samba

(should find any samba related package)