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tzulberti

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Registered: 2010-06-07

Posts: 2

Can't start samba

Hi. I am following the guide to install samba, but when I ran:
/etc/rc.d/samba start
it always fails.

I have done the following steps:

sudo pacman -S samba
sudo cp /etc/rc.d/smb.conf.default  cp /etc/rc.d/smb.conf
sudo /etc/rc.d/samba start

I cant get any log information, so I don't kwon what I am doing wrong. Ah, I am using gamin.

Thanks in advance,
Tomas Zulberti

shulamy

Member

From: israel

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 454

Re: Can't start samba

first of all your quote is wrong.

for me the samba also [FAIL] but after i finished the wiki guide i can see the windows

network in spite of this fail.

may be it becouse the samba is in the daemons of /etc/rc.conf but i'm not sure.

ezik

hokasch

Member

Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: Can't start samba

The samba daemon is only needed to share files, to access them smbclient is enough.

You put the samba config in the wrong place, see the wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samba#Configuration

demian

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From: Frankfurt, Germany

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 709

Re: Can't start samba

sudo cp /etc/rc.d/smb.conf.default  cp /etc/rc.d/smb.conf

That won't work as both the locations and the command syntax are wrong.
It should look like this:
sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf.default /etc/samba/smb.conf

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no place like /home
github

tzulberti

Member

Registered: 2010-06-07

Posts: 2

Re: Can't start samba

Thanks for all you help. Problem solved