Bret Thanks for that. I had to force rpm to de-install using --notriggers --noscripts but it did clear samba out. I've now re-installed and 'rpm -qa|grep samba' now gives
samba-2.2.5-10 samba-common-2.2.5-10 samba-client-2.2.5-10 samba-swat-2.2.5-10 I then did chkconfig smb on chkconfig swat on and the Service Configuration tool shows smb and swat running. I have also re-inserted the 'swat 901/tcp' line into /etc/services file and checked that Samba is working by browsing from a Windows machine OK. (I have a problem with printing but I'm working on that.) However .. Now instead of Mozilla telling me I cannot connect when I type in the http://localhost:901/ url I get an alert message stating that 'The operation timed out when attempting to contact www.localhost.com' This is progress of sorts I guess :-) Any ideas where I go from here? Regards Ashley > > keep in mind I am not an up2date user and there may be a better way to > do this using the tool. > > This should not happen as far as I can tell, and there is a bug > somewhere either in the dependencies listed in the packages or the tool > used to update the packages. you can manually --force stuff like this > but it is rarely a good idea as you can tell. > > I would backup the smb.conf file if you have spent any time on it and do > rpm -e samba samba-common samba-client > > that should remove all the samba packaged from the database and allow > the re-installation of them. > > Then reinstall the samba packages with up2date or rpm -ivh samba* while > sitting in your updates directory where you downloaded all the samba > updates. If you do the updates directory deal you should get samba-swat > too. > > If you can recreate the steps taken to get the packages out of sync, a > bug report to bugzilla.redhat.com would be good so the can fix the > problem in the next release. > > Bret > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
