[CentOS] Missing samba binaries

Mon Apr 2 04:56:41 UTC 2007
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> I went to enable samba on my home machine, which has a largely plain 
> vanilla install of CentOS 4.4 Plus, and the smbd and nmbd files are 
> missing.  As you may know, this makes it rather difficult to run 
> samba.  For some reason, the winbindd binary is present, and rpm reports:
>
> samba-common-3.0.10-1.4E.11
> samba-client-3.0.10-1.4E.11
>
> as present.  So how do I retrieve the missing samba binaries/  Do I 
> remove and reinstall the packages, or do I rebuild the latest samba 
> from source, or . . . ???

yum install samba samba-swat

(the 2nd is optional...   I use it to simplify configuring samba as the 
.conf file is long and complex....)