[aclug-L] Phi Samba Jamma

["Carl B. Davis" <cdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm the guy with the Pentium 133 that has been plodding along with
rebuilding the computer one piece at a time and installing Linux.  Since
my last message, I have also, now replaced the video card.  The only
thing left from the original computer is the CPU, Memory and 3.5" drive.

I have Red Hat Linux 5.2 installed and should have Samba starting up
when the machine boots.  I want to put this computer on my small Lan as
a server.  It's plugged into my network, but of course none of the
computers are talking to each other yet.

*    When I start the computer, it runs through its initialization just
fine until it gets to where it is starting networking.  Then it starts
looking for various commands, mostly  in  /etc/rc.d/rc3/d  and returns
the answer "J: Command not found".  It all runs by so quickly I can't
really pinpoint which specific files or commands it's not finding.
        -     Is there a "debug" sort of thing that will let me walk
through the initialization slowly so I can see what is working and make
a note before it moves on?
        -      It appears like I'm not getting Samba to run at all since
I get all these command not found messages.  Is that right?  What can I
do about it.  I have edited the smb.conf file, but only to personalize
some of the settings, and I followed the HowTo's, etc.  It has been
returning these errors since I installed it with Samba.

*    I am trying to connect with several Windoze 95 machines that are
networked with Artisoft's Lantastic Netbios. Any thoughts on this?  From
what I have read, it seems I should be able to connect them the way I
want and it should work with Samba.

*    When I run Ping from Windows, it defaults to my modem and doesn't
seem to try and send it out over the network.  What is the proper way to
ping over a network from a Windows 95 computer?

Thanks for any suggestions or help.

Carl

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