[brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5:where's smbd and nmbd?

Fri Nov 3 11:58:55 CST 2006

Dustin's right, I'm wrong. The samba and samba-common packages are different; my bad.

Will retry after lunch.

Think I found the problem: immutable bits set on files in /etc/sysconfig. That's what happens when you have multiple root users. :P

Thanks,
John Hebert

----- Original Message ----
From: Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com>
To: Karthik Poobalasubramanian <general at brlug.net>
Sent: Friday, November 3, 2006 10:55:38 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5:where's smbd and nmbd?

Yeah, he *appears* to be missing samba.i386. samba-client and
samba-common don't include the server functionality. That said, I
don't know why /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb exists if samba isn't installed.

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Friday, November 3, 2006, 10:45:55 AM, you wrote:

> John,
> Did you do #yum install samba or #yum install samba-common  to install
> samba?

> Karthik
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hebert [mailto:johnahebert at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:30 AM
> To: general at brlug.net
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core
> 5:where's smbd and nmbd?

> Dustin,

> Here are the results:

> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# service smb start
> Syntax OK
> Starting SMB services: /bin/bash: smbd: command not found
>                                                            [FAILED]
> Starting NMB services: /bin/bash: nmbd: command not found
>                                                            [FAILED]
> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# netstat -nlpt | grep smbd
> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# netstat -nlpt | grep nmbd
> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# smbclient -L //localhost -N
> Error connecting to 127.0.0.1 (Connection refused)
> Connection to localhost failed
> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]#

> Like I mentioned, samba-common is installed, but the smbd and nmbd binaries
> aren't there. ???

> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# yum list installed | grep samba
> samba-client.x86_64                      3.0.23c-1.fc5          installed
> samba-common.i386                        3.0.23c-1.fc5          installed

> This is Fedora Core 5 on a 64bit box:

> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# uname -a
> Linux houlnxfraud01.uclc.com 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 #1 SMP Sat Oct 14 16:59:56
> EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

> I can't imagine that the released rpm has a bug on it, so I am suspecting my
> server has a software config problem.

> Thanks,
> John Hebert

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com>
> To: John Hebert <general at brlug.net>
> Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2006 10:46:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5:
> where's smbd and nmbd?

> What happens when you do:

> # service smb start
> # netstat -nlpt | grep smbd
> # netstat -nlpt | grep nmbd
> # smbclient -L //localhost -N

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> Thursday, November 2, 2006, 9:13:31 PM, you wrote:

>> Howdy,

>> I'm trying to install Samba on a FC5 server. Seems like it would be
>> very simple with yum ('yum install samba'), but although I get an
>> "Complete!" message, I can't find 'smbd' or 'nmbd'. I tried
>> 'updatedb' and 'locate smbd' and also 'find / | grep smbd' but still
>> no luck. I see that the /etc/samba dir and the init.d scripts were
> created.

>> I just tried another install using yum with debug and error reporting on:

>> 'yum -d 6 -e 1 install samba'

>> Here's a partial output from yum:
>> ...
>>   Installing: initscripts                  ######################### [2/3]
>> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/sysconfig/console: cpio:
> lsetfilecon
>>   Installing: samba                                                
>> [3/3]warning: /etc/logrotate.d/samba created as
> /etc/logrotate.d/samba.rpmnew
>>   Installing: samba                                                
>> [3/3]warning: /etc/pam.d/samba created as /etc/pam.d/samba.rpmnew
>>   Installing: samba                                                
>> [3/3]warning: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb saved as /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb.rpmorig
>>   Installing: samba                                                
>> [3/3]warning: /etc/samba/smbusers created as /etc/samba/smbusers.rpmnew
>>   Installing: samba                        ######################### [3/3]
>> error: unpacking of archive failed on file
>> /etc/sysconfig/samba;454ab1bd: cpio: open

>> Installed: samba.x86_64 0:3.0.23c-1.fc5
>> Dependency Installed: initscripts.x86_64 0:8.31.6-1
>> samba-common.x86_64 0:3.0.23c-1.fc5
>> Complete!

>> I'm pretty sure the *.rpmnew files aren't a problem, but what about the
> errors?

>> Any ideas how I should approach debugging this?

>> Thanks,
>> John Hebert

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