[CentOS] Lost Samba GUI interface

[Todd Cary]

Johnny -

Thanks for info!  Fortunately I have a printout of smb.conf plus Samba 
working on another Centos server.  My needs fall into that no man's land 
between the system oriented users and the newbie who bought his first 
computer.  About once a year I need to put a new server online or make 
some tweaks.  The rest of the time the server(s) just run while I forget 
everything I may have known (except for those things I wrote down).

It is curious that "system-config-samba" no longer works and smb.conf is 
correct (as well as Samba is working).  "find / -name 
system-config-samba" does bring up several items, but I do not know 
enough to figure out what may be amiss.

Todd


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:
>
> testparm
>
> If there is an error with the smb.conf file that should show it.
>
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