Thread: Samba and Slackware

Originally Posted by Rakjavik

Is the samba install more complicated then the standard ./configure, make, make install routine?

shouldn't be, no
however, there isn't a "samba" command
(samba is just a cute name - the actual protocol is SMB - Server Message Block)

samba gets all it's config info from smb.conf file
(default debian location is /etc/samba/smb.conf)

"smbd" is the main binary (usually used with the -D switch to daemonise it)

"testparm" parses smb.conf and reports any errors (mostly syntax and stuff in wrong sections)

"smbstatus" reports the status (connected clients, locked files, etc.)

All these have manual pages

there's also various other commands (setting up samba users, setting passwords etc.), but the above are the main ones

Also, make sure the executable files that Ynot mentioned are in your PATH environmental variable. You can use the slocate command on Slackware iirc to find where those Samba files are located. Just make sure to run updatedb before you use slocate.