Samba - where is it, and how to upgrade?

[Ook]

I think that Samba is installed in /usr/lib/samba. I have a tar file of the current version. How would I go about upgrading? I've spent a bit of time searching and it looks that there is very little documentation written for clueless n00bs like me. What I don't know is how to start/stop/restart Samba, and then the tar command to extract the files.

Oh, yeah, fresh install of Slackware 10

[adrenaline]

samba is in /etc/samba
cp smb.conf-sample smb.conf
edit smb.conf
type
/etc/rc.d/rc.samba restart

Should be good to go.
if you want to upgrade do it through swaret and it should upgrade with rewritting your smb.conf file.

If you want to add users to your samba add users on the box that are going to be used for samba
example
adduser johndoe
passwd johndoe

smbpassword -a johndoe

This will create a smbpassword file in your /etc/samba file.

Good luck
Mike

[Ook]

This works up to the point I try to access /etc/rc.d/rc.samba/restart. It talle me "Not a directory". I can cd my way to rc.d, and from there I can see rc.samba, but for some reason I can't access it or get into it.

cd /etc/rc.d/ -> works
cd /etc/rc.d/rc.samba/ -> Not a directory
/etc/rc.d/rc.samba/restart -> Not a directory

[Ook]

I did, however, change the smb.conf and edit it, and simply reboot the box inleu of restarting samba. I sucessfully setup two shares that I can access from my Windows boxes, but they are write only for some reason. At least I'm making progress

[adrenaline]

Sorry I have been gone for the weekend
/etc/rc.d/rc.samba <space> restart
You made it look like restart was a directory should look like this
(reboot should also work though)

/etc/rc.d/rc.samba restart

There could be a couple of reasons it is read only. first look at your global and home sections in /etc/smb.conf file
there might be somewhere
readonly = yes
if so change to no obviously

the other reason is what ever share you are sharing might have read only permissions

example


/home/username/share
ls
d--r--r--r root root share

chmod 775 share

should change to
dwxrwxr-rx root root share

chgrp -R username share

should change to
dwxrwxrw-rx root username share

share is the name of the file in question
username is the username where the file is.

This is just an example it could be /usr/src wherever you put your shares

Make sense?