All, YaST > System Services (Runlevel) shows that nmb and smb are installed and enabled, while smbfs is installed and enabled, but has the asterisk (*) indicating that it is not working. If I select it and click "Enable", an info/dialog pops up saying: /etc/init.d/smbfs start returned 6 (program is not configured): Mount SMB/ CIFS File System ..unused [OK] A populated smb.conf file exists, so I assume this must be looking for some other file, in order to feel "configured". Anybody know what needs configging, here? Is it accessible via a YaST dialog, or do I create/edit a file directly? Kevin
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:37 -0400, elefino wrote:
All,
YaST > System Services (Runlevel) shows that nmb and smb are installed and enabled, while smbfs is installed and enabled, but has the asterisk (*) indicating that it is not working.
If I select it and click "Enable", an info/dialog pops up saying:
/etc/init.d/smbfs start returned 6 (program is not configured): Mount SMB/ CIFS File System ..unused [OK]
A populated smb.conf file exists, so I assume this must be looking for some other file, in order to feel "configured". Anybody know what needs configging, here? Is it accessible via a YaST dialog, or do I create/edit a file directly?
Kevin
KDE Control Center has a fairly nice config component under Internet & Network-->Samba Select the Administrator mode button to make changes. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:37 -0400, elefino wrote:
All,
YaST > System Services (Runlevel) shows that nmb and smb are installed and enabled, while smbfs is installed and enabled, but has the asterisk (*) indicating that it is not working.
If I select it and click "Enable", an info/dialog pops up saying:
/etc/init.d/smbfs start returned 6 (program is not configured): Mount SMB/ CIFS File System ..unused [OK]
A populated smb.conf file exists, so I assume this must be looking for some other file, in order to feel "configured". Anybody know what needs configging, here? Is it accessible via a YaST dialog, or do I create/edit a file directly?
Kevin
KDE Control Center has a fairly nice config component under Internet & Network-->Samba Select the Administrator mode button to make changes.
As I recall, smbfs runs when smbfs or cifs shares are mounted. My guess is, unless it's needed (i.e. to manage a mounted share) it's not there. The other daemons smb, nmb, and (optionally) winbind allow your Linux box to function as an SMB server. The config file smb.conf is used by the server daemons, not by smbfs. Gordon Keehn
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 13:11 -0500, Gordon Keehn wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:37 -0400, elefino wrote:
All,
YaST > System Services (Runlevel) shows that nmb and smb are installed and enabled, while smbfs is installed and enabled, but has the asterisk (*) indicating that it is not working.
If I select it and click "Enable", an info/dialog pops up saying:
/etc/init.d/smbfs start returned 6 (program is not configured): Mount SMB/ CIFS File System ..unused [OK]
A populated smb.conf file exists, so I assume this must be looking for some other file, in order to feel "configured". Anybody know what needs configging, here? Is it accessible via a YaST dialog, or do I create/edit a file directly?
Kevin
KDE Control Center has a fairly nice config component under Internet & Network-->Samba Select the Administrator mode button to make changes.
As I recall, smbfs runs when smbfs or cifs shares are mounted. My guess is, unless it's needed (i.e. to manage a mounted share) it's not there. The other daemons smb, nmb, and (optionally) winbind allow your Linux box to function as an SMB server. The config file smb.conf is used by the server daemons, not by smbfs.
Gordon Keehn
Also, smbfs will not run unless there are valid entries in /etc/samba/smbfstab as this file is checked during start up. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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