SAMBA not working in RHEL5

[raji10k]

Hi Folks

Am trying to configure samba in rhel5

I installed rpms and i shared a directory in smb.conf, but am not able to start the samba service

#service smb start
smb: unrecognized service

I come to know that there is no smb script in /etc/init.d/

What should I do now

waiting for replay, Thanks in Advance.

[coopstah13]

are you sure you installed the right RPM's? why not just use yum to install samba?

[ursusca]

Hi,

It means you didn't install a samba package
You have to install these packages:
samba
samba-client
samba-common

You can check it out:

rpm -qa | grep samba

[raji10k]

Hi Frnds

Thanks for replay

I installed samba rpm's and its showing when I fire this command
#rpm -qa|grep samba
samba-client-3.0.23c-2
samba-common-3.0.23c-2

and am able to view "/etc/samba/smb.conf" file also but samba service is not getting started.
[root@localhost ~]# service smb start
smb: unrecognized service
[root@localhost ~]# service smb restat
smb: unrecognized service


Help me frnds

[vishesh]

try to execute following
root# smbd -D
root# nmbd -D
If successful that mean your samba server is installed and only script file /etc/init.d/samba is missing.
But if it fails that mean samba daemon is not installed.

Thanks

[ursusca]

I installed samba rpm's and its showing when I fire this command
#rpm -qa|grep samba
samba-client-3.0.23c-2
samba-common-3.0.23c-2

Hi Buddy,

I told you, you didn't install a samba package. You didn't install a samba server so you can't start it.

samba - The Samba SMB server.
samba-client - Samba (SMB) client programs.
samba-common - Files used by both Samba servers and clients.

[raji10k]

Hi and Sori Frnds

I had done a mad thing without installing Samba server rpm,
Thanks for replay and sorry for ruining ur time frnds

Thanks