samba in rhel4

[sandyt]

Would appreciate some help setting up samba on a rhel4 computer.

1. have succeeded in accessing a windows shared directory in linux (cr/lf not working on windows side)
2. Cannot access samba shared libraries from windows.
3. can't get swat to work.

rpm -qa | grep samba
samba-common-3.0.28-0.el4.9
samba-client-3.0.28-0.el4.9
samba-common-3.0.28-0.el4.9
samba-swat-3.0.28-0.el4.9
samba-3.0.28-0.el4.9

Have smdb, nmdb, winbindd running.

I changed the /etc/xinetd.d/swat to disable=no,
restarted xinetd, but still can't get a response from http://127.0.0.1:901 (httpd is running).

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] can't get a response from
> http://127.0.0.1:901 (httpd is running).

SWAT is what listens at port 901. HTTPD
might be listening at port 80, so it's not
relevant here. Apparently, SWAT is not
running/configured. I know nothing, but I'd
probably start looking for clues in the
system log files.

[sandyt]

O.K. got swat working, but getting windows clients to see the linux share is still not working. We use AD and a DNS server, both of which were put into the smb.conf. I also supposedly joined the linux machine to the AD by running "net ads join". Get back "joined linix_server to realm xxx" where xxx is the realm in the smb.conf.

Does anyone know of a url which gives a simple cookbook to set this up?

[P Muralidhar Kini · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Check the following link -
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-samba-configuring.html

The above link talks about the configuration of the samba server for RHEL4. Hope this helps.

Regards,
Murali

[sandyt]

Thanks Murali. I think that manual will help a lot.