Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Starting the Samba service

To start the Samba SMB and NMB daemons, you can run the /etc/init.d/smb start−up script by typing the following as the root user:
# /etc/init.d/smb start
This runs the Samba service during the current session. To set up Samba to start automatically when your Linux system starts, type the following:
# chkconfig smb on
This turns on the Samba service to start automatically in run levels 3, 4, or 5. At this point, you can open the Network Neighborhood icon from the Windows desktop on the local LAN for a user you have just set up. An icon representing the Linux Samba server you just configured should appear in the Network Neighborhood window. When you open the server icon, you should see an icon representing the user’s home directory (/home/user) and one icon for each shared printer available from the Linux Samba server.

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