>> I have Fedora 2 Installed on 2 different machines. I can't find a way of >> starting samba except by opening System Setting/Server Settings/Samba, >then >> clicking Preferences/Server Settings, and clicking OK - smbd and nmbd are >> then seen to be running. Entering "smbd" either as user or root (which >I've >> used in the past) results in "command not found" . > >> Paul D > >Besides "chkconfig", which Robert already named, for setting up Samba in >the desired runlevels see "man service". "service smb start" will start >it, "service smb stop" will stop the Samba server. [<Yigal>] My problem is a bit different ( I cant see the files in the Linux from the XP), but I tried running the "service" & "chkonfig" - both cases I got the "commend not found". Whats wring in my system?