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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070107/f1371a5b/attachment-0005.sig>