[CentOS] Lost Samba GUI interface

[Johnny Hughes]

On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 21:25 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 12:56 -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
> >> After making some adjustments to Samba via the Control Center, the 
> >> System Settings | Server Settings | Samba (my preferred) no longer will 
> >> display.
> >>
> >> Can I fix this or do I need to reinstall Centos 4.4?
> >>
> > 
> > I've never used that thing (the file name is system-config-samba) as it
> > can mangle the /etc/samba/smb.conf file .... I have never liked system-
> > config-samba.
> > 
> > 
> > You shouldn't reinstall ... that program only works half the time
> > anyway ... if it was not in the upstream distro and if we were not
> > trying to mirror the upstream distro as closely as possible I would have
> > taken it out already.
> > 
> > Your best bet is to learn how to edit that file (/etc/samba/smb.conf) by
> > hand.
> > 
> > You can test the file for errors with this command (as root) from the
> > command line:
> 
> I think Johnny's comments apply to several of the RH configuration 
> tools. They're fairly basic and seem to me to be present just so that 
> some beancounter can check a box, "Got that: [X]." I have over 20 
> system-config-* tools installed; only one (system-config-network) seems 
> useful, and the TUI version of that's broken. The LVM and SELinux tools 
> might be useful, I've never had their need.

John ... I tend to agree with you about most of those too ... the
display one works (mostly), and the printer one is OK, and the network
one too.  But I would never, ever use the samba one, the httpd one, the
securitylevel one, or the packages one.  YMMV though :P
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