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. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list