On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:39:19AM +0100, Jim O'Shea wrote:
> when i type in the line:
> /etc/init.d/smb start
> i'm getting the following error message:
>> Starting SMB services: execvp: No such file or directory
> Starting NMB services: execvp: No such file or directory
This appears to be because the smb start script isn't finding smbd and nmbd,
the daemons which provide SMB and NMB services.
> Should these files have been created when i installed the samba file or do i
> need to run something to create them?
How exactly did you install Samba ? If you installed from an RPM or did a
proper source install, you should have everything correctly installed. You
didn't by any chance simply copy /etc/init.d/smb from another machine, did
you ?
Niall
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