samba installation

[Kerry Hoath]

Samba does not install to /usr/local/samba unless you compile
from source. config files are in
/etc and you can start and stop the daemons with
the control scripts in /etc/init.d/rc.d.
If the rpm did install to /usr/local/samba then none of the samba commands
such as nmblookup would be in your path.
Linux is not Windows; installing something installs it onto
your system wherever it is going to go. re-installing and uninstalling only
serves to thrash the disks a bit.
The book using Samba is available in electronic format on the
web and it is an excellent reerence.

Regards, Kerry.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:23:17PM -0500, Jim Ruby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have tried to install samba in rh 7.1 and noticed that I do not have the
> /usr/local/samba directory.
> so I tried to re-install and uninstall and install again and the darn directory is not there.
> I'm using 
> rpm -Uv samba-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm
> i have also tried installing the samba-common, samba-client and samba-swat manually to be sure the the samba-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm installed anything it required and still no /usr/local/samba directory.
> 
> I do not know where to go from here as the linuxdocs.org assumes your package is installed and ready to configure.
> 
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