On 24 November 2010 11:57, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > Well, it's pretty similar. I'm not sure if I messed up the installation It's almost identical. Oracle kernel parameters & dependencies can be automatically installed during installation albeit later on Oracle RDBMS installation gives you warnings since it doesn't like the default values in /etc/sysctl.conf as populated by OEL. The rest? Almost completely identical to upstream. > I didn't find a samba package, but as this was for one oracle developer > to transfer files, we just used winscp. (I also didn't look hard for a > samba package, at present, this is just a test.) Are you sure? [root at fubar ~]# rpm -qf /usr/sbin/smbd samba-3.0.33-3.7.el5 > Disk naming seems slightly different--we went with more standard > partitions rather than LVM, and rather than /dev/sda and so on, it was > /dev---arrgh, I'm not at work, and my mind just went blank--errm, xda > and xdb? At any rate, it will be fairly obvious. Nope, all comes as sda/sdb etc. if you don't use LVM unless your external storage is funky. > assume (but note, that's an assumption, not knowledge), one could call > and ask things like, Where can I find samba? Erm, maybe one of these should contain it? (It is pretty visible during the installation). [root at hobbit Oracle Unbreakable Linux]# mount -o loop -t iso9660 Enterprise-R5-U5-Server-x86_64-dvd.iso /mnt/mnt1 [root at hobbit Oracle Unbreakable Linux]# cd /mnt/mnt1 [root at hobbit Oracle Unbreakable Linux]# find /mnt/mnt1 -iname samba* /mnt/mnt1/Server/samba-3.0.33-3.28.el5.x86_64.rpm /mnt/mnt1/Server/samba-client-3.0.33-3.28.el5.x86_64.rpm /mnt/mnt1/Server/samba-common-3.0.33-3.28.el5.i386.rpm /mnt/mnt1/Server/samba-common-3.0.33-3.28.el5.x86_64.rpm /mnt/mnt1/Server/samba-swat-3.0.33-3.28.el5.x86_64.rpm /mnt/mnt1/Server/samba3x-3.3.8-0.51.el5.x86_64.rpm /mnt/mnt1/Server/samba3x-client-3.3.8-0.51.el5.x86_64.rpm /mnt/mnt1/Server/samba3x-common-3.3.8-0.51.el5.x86_64.rpm /mnt/mnt1/Server/samba3x-doc-3.3.8-0.51.el5.x86_64.rpm /mnt/mnt1/Server/samba3x-domainjoin-gui-3.3.8-0.51.el5.x86_64.rpm /mnt/mnt1/Server/samba3x-swat-3.3.8-0.51.el5.x86_64.rpm /mnt/mnt1/Server/samba3x-winbind-3.3.8-0.51.el5.i386.rpm /mnt/mnt1/Server/samba3x-winbind-devel-3.3.8-0.51.el5.i386.rpm /mnt/mnt1/Server/samba3x-winbind-devel-3.3.8-0.51.el5.x86_64.rpm /mnt/mnt1/Server/samba3x-winbind-3.3.8-0.51.el5.x86_64.rpm > (Samba client and samba common was available, but no smbd. Again, I did > NO googling on this, just did yum provides */smbd, got no results, and > then used WinSCP.) It appears you didn't even look for it. :) -- Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org