[plug] Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:04:31 +0800

[Leon Brooks]

> Michaela Morcom wrote:
> Could anyone help out a poor girl with no Linux experience, I have
> installed APC RedHat 5.2, but have had some problems, want to network
> with a Win98 machine, but cannot get Samba to work, not sure whether
> it is installed or not and I need help with installing packages from
> the CD.

Where are you?

Can you bring your machine to UWA two Mondays from now?

If you can type (as root)...

    /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb status

...the script will tell you whether Samba is running. Try "start"
instead of "status" if it isn't. Edit /etc/smb.conf to change things and
the command above but "restart" instead of "status" when you want the
changes to take effect. Better still, type...

    cd /usr/doc/HOWTO
    less SMB-HOWTO

...space to page down (Ctrl-U, Ctrl-D do up/down half a page, h for
help, q to quit). If you get gobbledygook, try "zless SMB-HOWTO.gz"
instead. You can use Alt-F1, Alt-F2 etc to access more consoles so that
you can read and do simultaneously.

If you can log in as root and start X (type "startx"), there is an
interactive control panel which will let you turn SMB on and off
permanently (in the runlevels section).

-- 
 > Can you see evidence of aliens on the moon as well ???
You can see evidence of aliens in your oatmeal, if you look with the
right mindset and expectations. -- Jeramie Hicks, in sci.space.policy