Hi, First of all, please do not top post. On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:52, Rob Townley<rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote: >>>> what rpm did you use for this install? >>> >>> He did not use an rpm so he is on his on. He used the source tarball. >> >> one would wonder why > > Why? IIRC, I think the term is .... ready for this .... *Open Source * > > Further, the samba project has added a great deal more than what is in > the standard RPMs. However, if you are using an *enterprise* distro, it usually means you want to use well tested and stable versions of packages. If you want cutting edge versions, you should probably go with Fedora or Ubuntu. If you want to install from source, you should probably go with Gentoo. But more to the point, if you install software from source, you can't expect to go to the CentOS mailing lists and ask for help. In this specific case, the OP should either uninstall Samba from source and install the CentOS RPMs, in which case the mailing list would be able to help him, or should go to the Samba website and mailing lists asking for help instead. In this specific case, it's clear he doesn't know what he is doing and how to fix a fairly simple problem, in which case I expect him to find other problems just after this one is fixed, not to mention that he will probably not be able to update and keep his versions current, applying security patches, etc., so I think he would be better off by uninstalling his source build and installing the CentOS RPMs instead, in which case the experience should be smoother and, while it would still require some skills, those would be simpler than the ones required when building and maintaining from source yourself. HTH, Filipe