Sorry about being short on the details- my machine is at work and I'm starting a two week vacation (the perks of being a teacher).
The way I now understand it, dselect installs precompiled binaries rather than compiling the source. Since the configuration options for Samba are set before compilation, I'll either have to work with the apt-get or dpkg source building features or just download the source and build it the usual way without the packaging. As for the smbfs module, when I installed the smbfs package in dselect I expected the smbfs module to be placed somewhere. Shouldn't I be able to insert the module without recompiling or reinstalling the kernel? The missing man: when I enter the command "man foo" I get a message like "bash: man not found"- as if it simply does not recognize the command. If I type "whereis man" it'll return something like "man: /usr/share/man /usr/share/doc/man/man.8.gz" or something of the sort. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Olszewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:26 PM Subject: Re: missing man and smbsh > At 10:17 PM 12/20/02 -0500, Jonathan Kallay wrote: > >I'm running Debian 3.0 and have been working on setting up my machine on a > >Windows network. I installed the packages samba, samba-common, swat, smbfs > >and smbclient. When using smbmount I've gotten an error from the kernel- I > >tried running "modprobe smbfs", but the smbfs module couldn't been found. I > >also tried running smbsh but that couldn't be found either. > > What kernel are you using ("uname -a")? Last time I checked, Debian > Woody (3.0) installs 2.2.20-compact by default, and that binary doesn't > include the smbfs module. You'll need a full-strength kernel, either one > you get in binary form ("apt-cache search kernel-image" for the choices) or > that you compile yourself ("apt-cache kernel-source" for the choices). > > >I thought that perhaps there were setting that I did not correctly set when > >installing Samba (such as the -smbwrapper option). So I tried using dselect > >to remove and reinstall Samba. However, before compilation dselect didn't > >prompt for any options. > > I haven't done this is in a long time myself, so I don't recall what > options it might prompt for. > > >After Samba was reinstalled, I discovered that the system could no longer > >find man! > > You need to describe this "discovery" in a bit more detail to get any help > with it. What command did you actually type and what was the response? > > >Anyone have any suggestions on what could have happened, and how > >to get smbsh or smbmount to work properly? > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- > Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo > Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs