Bill Tetens <zuki269@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> experience. >> Fedora/redaht provides lots of tools to help you with this. >> First lets see what tools you have on board to install samba. I'll >> be >> surprised if it is not already installed. >> type: >> rpm -qa|grep samba >> > What showed up was: rpm:L one type query/verify may be performed at a time Something is very wrong here. Please copy and paste the actual command line and response to a mail message. This command `rpm -qa|grep samba' should show any samba pkgs installed or return blank if none are. If that doesn't happen there are other problems. >> rpm --redhatprovides samba > This showed up: Unknown Option >> This will query the distro package list to see what pkg provides >> samba functionality. >> samba-3.0.5-0pre1.0 >> rpm -qa|grep yum > > This showed up again: one type query/verify may be performed at a time. >> If that shows a `yum-*' pkg we are in business. We'll need to get this resolved to move on. If you typed in the commands as shown removing any extraneous quotes and got those messages I'm not sure what to do from here. Here are the bare commands to copy paste to a command line: rpm -qa|grep samba rpm -qa|grep yum