Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[John J. Boyer]

Hello,
I'm trying to install samba on my Redhat 7.1 or maybe 7.1.5 system. I got 
the latest Samba-client and samba-common packages from the Redhat site 
with up2date. There were no error messages. However I can't find the 
daemons that are mentioned in the samba Howto. When I went to the download 
site recommended by the howto, the directory names were totally unhelpful. 
"rpm -q samba" says that the package is not installed, but when I try to 
install the packages from the 7.1 cd's it says that there are newer 
versions of the packages already installed. 
What's the next step?
Thanks.
John


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Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm trying to install samba on my Redhat 7.1 or maybe 7.1.5 system.

I'm afraid you posted to the wrong mailing list...


Nicolas

Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[John J. Boyer]

Nicolas,
I posted to the blinux list because I anticipate an accessibility 
problem. I am using BRLTTY. If I were sighted I could just run the 7.1 
install cd's and add samba. 
John
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to install samba on my Redhat 7.1 or maybe 7.1.5 system.
> 
> I'm afraid you posted to the wrong mailing list...
> 
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[Mike Gorse]

Are you installing SAMBA as a client or as a server?  If you are going to
share files from your Linux system, then you may need a samba-server
package.

-- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org --

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm trying to install samba on my Redhat 7.1 or maybe 7.1.5 system. I got
> the latest Samba-client and samba-common packages from the Redhat site
> with up2date. There were no error messages. However I can't find the
> daemons that are mentioned in the samba Howto. When I went to the download
> site recommended by the howto, the directory names were totally unhelpful.
> "rpm -q samba" says that the package is not installed, but when I try to
> install the packages from the 7.1 cd's it says that there are newer
> versions of the packages already installed.
> What's the next step?
> Thanks.
> John
>
>
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> http://www.chpi.org
> 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
>
>
>
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Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Nicolas,
> I posted to the blinux list because I anticipate an accessibility 
> problem. I am using BRLTTY. If I were sighted I could just run the 7.1 
> install cd's and add samba. 

You may as well insert the CD, go to the RPMS directory, and install samba 
by hand with a "rpm -iv samba*" as root.


Nicolas

Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[John J. Boyer]

Mike,
I need both to access files on the Windows machines in our office and to 
give them access to files on my machine. I got the Samba-client package 
from the Redhat site, but I can't figure out how to get the server. When 
I try to install the RPM's from the cd's I eventually wind up with a 
module dependency that can't be resolved with the cd I have in the 
drive.
Since I am using BRLTTY and don't have reliable sighted helpers, this 
message definitely belongs on this list.
John
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Mike Gorse 
wrote:

> Are you installing SAMBA as a client or as a server?  If you are going to
> share files from your Linux system, then you may need a samba-server
> package.
> 
> -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org --
> 
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to install samba on my Redhat 7.1 or maybe 7.1.5 system. I got
> > the latest Samba-client and samba-common packages from the Redhat site
> > with up2date. There were no error messages. However I can't find the
> > daemons that are mentioned in the samba Howto. When I went to the download
> > site recommended by the howto, the directory names were totally unhelpful.
> > "rpm -q samba" says that the package is not installed, but when I try to
> > install the packages from the 7.1 cd's it says that there are newer
> > versions of the packages already installed.
> > What's the next step?
> > Thanks.
> > John
> >
> >
> > --
> > Computers to Help People, Inc.
> > http://www.chpi.org
> > 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Blinux-list@redhat.com
> > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
> >
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Mike,
> I need both to access files on the Windows machines in our office and to 
> give them access to files on my machine. I got the Samba-client package 
> from the Redhat site, but I can't figure out how to get the server. When 
> I try to install the RPM's from the cd's I eventually wind up with a 
> module dependency that can't be resolved with the cd I have in the 
> drive.

What dependency?

> Since I am using BRLTTY and don't have reliable sighted helpers, this 
> message definitely belongs on this list.

Let me assure you that you don't need any sighted assistance to resolve such 
problem.


Nicolas

Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[Janina Sajka]

John:

You need to launch the samba server, which is called smb.

service smb start

should do it.

The smbclient program doesn't need to be launched.

Do man smbclient to get a handle on it.
Once you are satisfied that you've got all the pieces in place, I can write more about actually using samba.

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm trying to install samba on my Redhat 7.1 or maybe 7.1.5 system. I got 
> the latest Samba-client and samba-common packages from the Redhat site 
> with up2date. There were no error messages. However I can't find the 
> daemons that are mentioned in the samba Howto. When I went to the download 
> site recommended by the howto, the directory names were totally unhelpful. 
> "rpm -q samba" says that the package is not installed, but when I try to 
> install the packages from the 7.1 cd's it says that there are newer 
> versions of the packages already installed. 
> What's the next step?
> Thanks.
> John
> 
> 
> 

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Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[Janina Sajka]

John:

Samba is very sensitive about modules. You cannot just use the latest rpm without updating its dependencies.

PS: Any reason you're not using 7.2? You should be able to upgrade with something like:

up2date -p

I think that's the correct flag, anyway.

PS: Red Hat is a good ways into its next beta cycle called Skipjack.

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Mike,
> I need both to access files on the Windows machines in our office and to 
> give them access to files on my machine. I got the Samba-client package 
> from the Redhat site, but I can't figure out how to get the server. When 
> I try to install the RPM's from the cd's I eventually wind up with a 
> module dependency that can't be resolved with the cd I have in the 
> drive.
> Since I am using BRLTTY and don't have reliable sighted helpers, this 
> message definitely belongs on this list.
> John
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Mike Gorse 
> wrote:
> 
> > Are you installing SAMBA as a client or as a server?  If you are going to
> > share files from your Linux system, then you may need a samba-server
> > package.
> > 
> > -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org --
> > 
> > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm trying to install samba on my Redhat 7.1 or maybe 7.1.5 system. I got
> > > the latest Samba-client and samba-common packages from the Redhat site
> > > with up2date. There were no error messages. However I can't find the
> > > daemons that are mentioned in the samba Howto. When I went to the download
> > > site recommended by the howto, the directory names were totally unhelpful.
> > > "rpm -q samba" says that the package is not installed, but when I try to
> > > install the packages from the 7.1 cd's it says that there are newer
> > > versions of the packages already installed.
> > > What's the next step?
> > > Thanks.
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Computers to Help People, Inc.
> > > http://www.chpi.org
> > > 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Blinux-list mailing list
> > > Blinux-list@redhat.com
> > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > Blinux-list@redhat.com
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> > 
> 
> 

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				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
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Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[John J. Boyer]

Nicolas,
The last time I tried to install from cd it said it needed libreadline 
something. There is no file beginning with those letters on the cd.
John
On Thu, 
25 Apr 2002, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:
> 
> > Mike,
> > I need both to access files on the Windows machines in our office and to 
> > give them access to files on my machine. I got the Samba-client package 
> > from the Redhat site, but I can't figure out how to get the server. When 
> > I try to install the RPM's from the cd's I eventually wind up with a 
> > module dependency that can't be resolved with the cd I have in the 
> > drive.
> 
> What dependency?
> 
> > Since I am using BRLTTY and don't have reliable sighted helpers, this 
> > message definitely belongs on this list.
> 
> Let me assure you that you don't need any sighted assistance to resolve such 
> problem.
> 
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[Janina Sajka]

OK, my memory won't be fully accurate on this, but there is a --what-provides switch to rpm.

I think it has to go with the -q switch, but I don't recall precisely.


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				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
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Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[John J. Boyer]

Janina,
It seems I don't have the server, and I don't have any manual pages. 
Parts of samba seem to be there, but not enough to do any good.
Thanks.
John
On Thu, 25 
Apr 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> John:
> 
> You need to launch the samba server, which is called smb.
> 
> service smb start
> 
> should do it.
> 
> The smbclient program doesn't need to be launched.
> 
> Do man smbclient to get a handle on it.
> Once you are satisfied that you've got all the pieces in place, I can write more about actually using samba.
> 
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to install samba on my Redhat 7.1 or maybe 7.1.5 system. I got 
> > the latest Samba-client and samba-common packages from the Redhat site 
> > with up2date. There were no error messages. However I can't find the 
> > daemons that are mentioned in the samba Howto. When I went to the download 
> > site recommended by the howto, the directory names were totally unhelpful. 
> > "rpm -q samba" says that the package is not installed, but when I try to 
> > install the packages from the 7.1 cd's it says that there are newer 
> > versions of the packages already installed. 
> > What's the next step?
> > Thanks.
> > John
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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http://www.chpi.org
825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703

Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Nicolas,
> The last time I tried to install from cd it said it needed libreadline 
> something. There is no file beginning with those letters on the cd.

Look for readline*.


Nicolas

RE: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[Joel Zimba]

this is only tangentially related to the samba topic, but has anyone noticed
what a great product it has become in the past few years?

Samba has been here for something like 8 or 10 years, and it used to be a
network hog and slow, but now it's frankly, amazing!
It's a great example of free software at it's best.  while I don't have an
array of machines using it now,
I recently saw how smoothly a bunch of windows and linux machines can
happily coexist.

not that it fixes your problems, but let's all lift our java-mugs in salute!



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Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 5:45 PM
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1



It's not called server in the rpm package name. It's just samba-2 ...
whatever. Here's my list ...

samba-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm@  samba-client-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm@
samba-common-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm@  samba-swat-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm@
[
What happens when you do

service smb start

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Janina,
> It seems I don't have the server, and I don't have any manual pages.
> Parts of samba seem to be there, but not enough to do any good.
> Thanks.
> John
> On Thu, 25
> Apr 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
> > John:
> >
> > You need to launch the samba server, which is called smb.
> >
> > service smb start
> >
> > should do it.
> >
> > The smbclient program doesn't need to be launched.
> >
> > Do man smbclient to get a handle on it.
> > Once you are satisfied that you've got all the pieces in place, I can
write more about actually using samba.
> >
> > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm trying to install samba on my Redhat 7.1 or maybe 7.1.5 system. I
got
> > > the latest Samba-client and samba-common packages from the Redhat site
> > > with up2date. There were no error messages. However I can't find the
> > > daemons that are mentioned in the samba Howto. When I went to the
download
> > > site recommended by the howto, the directory names were totally
unhelpful.
> > > "rpm -q samba" says that the package is not installed, but when I try
to
> > > install the packages from the 7.1 cd's it says that there are newer
> > > versions of the packages already installed.
> > > What's the next step?
> > > Thanks.
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[Janina Sajka]

It's not called server in the rpm package name. It's just samba-2 ... whatever. Here's my list ...

samba-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm@  samba-client-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm@  samba-common-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm@  samba-swat-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm@
[
What happens when you do 

service smb start

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Janina,
> It seems I don't have the server, and I don't have any manual pages. 
> Parts of samba seem to be there, but not enough to do any good.
> Thanks.
> John
> On Thu, 25 
> Apr 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > John:
> > 
> > You need to launch the samba server, which is called smb.
> > 
> > service smb start
> > 
> > should do it.
> > 
> > The smbclient program doesn't need to be launched.
> > 
> > Do man smbclient to get a handle on it.
> > Once you are satisfied that you've got all the pieces in place, I can write more about actually using samba.
> > 
> > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm trying to install samba on my Redhat 7.1 or maybe 7.1.5 system. I got 
> > > the latest Samba-client and samba-common packages from the Redhat site 
> > > with up2date. There were no error messages. However I can't find the 
> > > daemons that are mentioned in the samba Howto. When I went to the download 
> > > site recommended by the howto, the directory names were totally unhelpful. 
> > > "rpm -q samba" says that the package is not installed, but when I try to 
> > > install the packages from the 7.1 cd's it says that there are newer 
> > > versions of the packages already installed. 
> > > What's the next step?
> > > Thanks.
> > > John
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Re: Installing Samba on RedHat 7.1

[Shaun Oliver]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:
>
> > Nicolas,
> > I posted to the blinux list because I anticipate an accessibility
> > problem. I am using BRLTTY. If I were sighted I could just run the 7.1
> > install cd's and add samba.
>
> You may as well insert the CD, go to the RPMS directory, and install samba
> by hand with a "rpm -iv samba*" as root.
>
>
> Nicolas
>
Nicolas, there's no need to be terse.
I've only been on this list for a week or so but it would appear to me
that if someone comes here asking for help we should bend over backwares
and try to help them. Not blow them off.


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