From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Randall Parker wrote:
> /m wrote:
>> To see if samba is running, run the ps command (under FreeBSD, is use
>> the command   ps aux ) and look for programs called:  smbd  and  nmbd
>
> The ps command shows a very short list of processes, fewer than I know
> are running. But I can bring up the System Monitor and see the complete
> list. The smbd and nmbd process names do not show up there.
>
> I am wondering if I have Samba on my machine without having it
> configured to run.
>
> Otherwise, should I try to get Samba from the Fedora site or from some
> general site? Does one typically try to get a program as built for one's
> particular distribution?
>
> Okay, I ran locate and got what looks like promising stuff:
>
> [randall{at}localhost ~]$ locate smbd
> /selinux/booleans/allow_smbd_anon_write
> /selinux/booleans/smbd_disable_trans
> /usr/sbin/smbd
> /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.23/htmldocs/manpages/smbd.8.html
> /usr/share/man/man8/smbd.8.gz
> [randall{at}localhost ~]$ ls /usr/sbin/smbd
> /usr/sbin/smbd
> [randall{at}localhost ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/smbd
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3802804 Jul 12 12:58 /usr/sbin/smbd
> [randall{at}localhost ~]$
>
> Is that /usr/sbin/smbd the thing I want?
>

Yup

> Is there a proper way to configure it to run on start-up?

Yup

> I mean, do you
> just put it in some file that has a list of processes to start up on the
> load of the OS? If so, which file?
>
it will be somewhere like

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

> Or does Gnome or some other tool have an admin interface to interact
> with to do this sort of thing?
>

very probably. Either Gnome or RedHat or RedHat things written for &
then given to Gnome.


Adam

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