On Saturday 02 Oct 2004 14:03, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 02.10.2004 schrieb Paul C D Dann um 13:12: > > 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. > > Alexander chkconfig worked fine but only after I had logged on as root, rather than as Super user from my normal logon. In the second case, I got "command not found". I had also found this happened with ifconfig. This doesn't happen with Mandrake which I had been using previously. There was no "man service" file, and a service command (even when logged on as root) gave "command not found" - but having used chkdsk, Samba started on reboot so I no longer had a problem. Paul D
