Samba Installation

[Christian Briddon_1]

Hi There,

I have been using Samba for a couple of years in a linux environment and thought it would be no problem to install and configure it on our K400 server.

I downloaded the 2.2.3a version for HPUX 11i and installed the .depot file without any problem. The service started without a problem.

However, I can't find the smb.conf file or the smbpasswd file. I have looked everywhere and searched all drives but they are not there.

If someone could let me know why they are not present and how to create them I would be very greatful.

Thanks in advance,

Christian Briddon

[Stefan Farrelly]

Its in /etc/opt/samba

Theres a default smb.conf.default file you copy to smb.conf then change as needed.

[Christian Briddon_1]

It's not there though. The samba installation is in /usr/local/samba and I am thinking that the smb.conf file and the smbpasswd file should be in /usr/local/samba/lib. If I copy the smb.conf.default file here then testparm is OK with it, but where is the smbpasswd file?

thanks for your reply,

Christian

[Sukant Naik]

Hi Christain,

The smb.conf file details as seen on my server
# cd /etc/opt/samba
# ll
total 52
drwxr-xr-x 2 root users 1024 May 23 17:12 codepages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 11317 May 23 17:57 smb.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 11290 Nov 28 2001 smb.conf.default
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 34 Jun 12 12:19 smbusers.map
#


And the smbpasswd
# pwd
/opt/samba/bin
# ll smbpasswd
-rwxr-x--x 1 root sys 1179648 Jun 10 13:16 smbpasswd

-Sukant

[Christian Briddon_1]

I have the smbpasswd file in /bin but that is the executable that allows me to change smb passwords in the none existant smbpasswd file.

I have nothing to do with Samba in /etc/opt, everything is in /usr/local/samba.

This is really quite confusing but thanks for your replies.

Christian

[Donald Kok]

use find / -name smb.conf to find it. Mine is in /var/samba/conf/

Greetzz

[Stefan Farrelly]

Hmm. That sounds like you have a completely different install of Samba to the one were using. Ours also installs via software distributor but obviously to 2 different locations! We use CIFS which comes with Samba;
B8723AA A.01.02 CIFS/9000 Client Lic. for 9000 Servers
B8725AA A.01.02 CIFS/9000 Server Lic. for 9000 Servers

You can install this from your HP CD's rather than using the independent version.

Anyway, if youre installed via SD you can do a search for the smb.conf file;

swlist -l file | grep smb.conf

This will find it for you - it may not find smb.conf but it should find smb.conf.default which you can copy to smb.conf
Either that or it didnt install properly.

[Sukant Naik]

Hi Christian,

I agree with Stefan,

I have had enough problems while installing from the SAMBA source files.

I have now switched over to CIFS and it seems to be working fine.

Regards,
Sukant