[CentOS] Lost Samba GUI interface
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Jan 7 12:25:53 UTC 2007
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.
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Cheers
John
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