On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:55:16 +0200, Marcello Romani <mrom...@ottotecnica.com> wrote: >A samba init script should take care of restarting both services IMHO, >because they're really supposed to go together. Therefore it's not >strange that they ported to upstart only the "main" init.d script (the >one referring to smbd). That's all IMHO, of course.
That's also what I thought, but /etc/init.d/ contains two separate scripts (smbd and nmbd; no trace of "samba", as specified in the Ubuntu documentation www.tinyurl.com/ubuntu-samba-doc), and since since I couldn't see the shares from Windows, I figured I might have to launch both separately. /etc/init.d/smbd doesn't seem to launch nmbd, but I'm no shell expert: http://pastebin.com/fJB89Uc8 >AFAIKT, smbfs is needed only if you want to mount samba shares, i.e. for >using the linux system as a samba *client*, not server. I'm not 100% >sure, though. >Regarding winbind, I find it strange that it didn't get installed along >with the rest of samba... The problem is that I couldn't find an up-to-date documentation that would say precisely what needs to be installed in Ubuntu and show a very basic smb.conf that would work. Docs either assume people will just append their stuff to the big default smb.conf... and somehow figure out what packages need to be installed. >Don't know about "available" param, but public and writable shouldn't >affect visibility of the server in windows neighborhood. I added those because I saw them in some documentation... but at this point, I'm clueless at what packages are really needed, and what needs to be done in smb.conf to share a writable folder. Actually, I'm seeing something funny... but this is for another thread. Thank you all for your help. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba