From: Joe Hunt 

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:28:40 -0700, Randall Parker

wrote:



>7) I want to configure Samba and make it run on start-up. I think I have
>it on the machine. Do not know what next step to take. Go where to put
>it in a start-up script? Or is there a services/daemon manager?

I don't use Fedora, but the following link might help.

http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/sambaserver.shtml

In particular, step 3 describes, using the gui, what you need to do to have
it start on system startup .  And, it says that to manually start samba,
you need to give this command

/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart

I use Slackware, and it's startup process is different from Redhat derived
distributions.  It has a directory /etc/rc.d and any script in that
directory which is executable will be run on startup.  So, for example, in
Slackware, samba is not started automatically, but there is a startup
script in that directory which is not executable.  Giving the command

chmod +x rc.samba

will cause samba to start automatically upon system startup.  Perhaps
Fedora and other Red Hat distributions use a similar concept.

Samba is configured entirely with a text file named smb.conf which in
Slackware is located in /etc/samba

The above article describes configuring samba using gui tools in Fedora.

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