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How to install samba server on solaris 10 ?

Asked by: dontdig

Hi,

I am newbee in UNIX/solaris  i cant install samba on solaris see wht steps i tried in cdrom

# pkgadd -d . SUNWsmbar SUNWsmbau SUNWmbac SUNWsmbas

but it could only install SUNWsmbar and SUNWsmbau

for other packages it says package not found  i installed SUNWsmbaS also but i  dont know what is use of this?? but still i cant find ./samba service script in /etc/inet.d/

actually iam following this tutorial

http://it.toolbox.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_configure_SAMBA_in_Solaris




pls help me out guys

Ty  alot

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Answers

 

by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-07-03 at 15:49:41ID: 24774834

 

by: dontdigPosted on 2009-07-03 at 22:52:56ID: 24775981

Ty omarfarid for links

but i dont have sparc pc its on vmware workstation with C2DUO processor will it work?
actually iam studying on solaris...though iam downloading it...

 

by: dontdigPosted on 2009-07-06 at 05:27:57ID: 24784468

sorry to say but i have downloaded it was corrupted  package ..iam trying to  download it  again

 

by: dontdigPosted on 2009-07-06 at 06:24:46ID: 24784892

now i have extracted the above package but prob is i dont know how to instll it its  

 samba-3.2.4-sol10-x86-local

i dont know how to run  it is an script ?

 

by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-07-06 at 07:32:38ID: 24785552

after unzipping it

gunzip samba-3.2.4-sol10-x86-local.gz

then run as root

pkgadd -d samba-3.2.4-sol10-x86-local

 

by: dontdigPosted on 2009-07-06 at 08:01:47ID: 24785840

thanks its has been installed now but how to start this service in /etc/init.d there is no start-up script for this like we have in linux

 

by: dontdigPosted on 2009-07-06 at 11:20:41ID: 24787787

now  my samba server is up and running i can share folder .....but still funny thing is how can i start/restart  the service?? there is no /etc/init.d/samba or /etc/init.d/./samba to stop or to restart this service  

suppose i have made some changes in smb.conf i want to restart the service pls tel me about it

Regards++

 

by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-07-06 at 20:25:56ID: 24791249

please look into the provided links on how to stop / start / restart samba

 

by: dontdigPosted on 2009-07-07 at 00:40:25ID: 24792111

yes i looked at it it says the same /etc/init.d/samba start/stop ,,but the script is "NOT" there to start and stop the service.

 

by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-07-07 at 01:08:10ID: 24792232

in the link below (already given)

http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5106458

Follow the steps from

Sep 18, 2006 11:23 PM  (reply 4 of 20)  (In reply to  #3  )

 

by: dontdigPosted on 2009-07-07 at 01:59:31ID: 24792498

HeLL!!!!!!!!!!!!  

LOL man the procedure is very long do we need to follow the same procedure to just start and stop an service in solaris???????????// nothing inbuilt??


if answer is yes i"ll  have to certainly leave solaris study..... :-(

 

by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-07-07 at 02:45:52ID: 24792721

well, you could take the commands and run them manually and forget about automating it!

 

by: dontdigPosted on 2009-07-07 at 05:39:31ID: 24793623

"well, you could take the commands and run them manually and forget about automating it!"

can u pls explain urs comment practically
please tell me the procedure u do when u use solaris for an service to start like samba...please be practical while answering it will be easy to understand


Ty++

 

by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-07-07 at 05:57:31ID: 24793732

ok, if not mistaken you can do

- to start

/etc/rc3.d/S90samba start

OR

 /usr/sfw/sbin/smbd -D
 /usr/sfw/sbin/nmbd -D

- to stop

/etc/rc3.d/S90samba stop

OR

pkill smbd
pkill nmbd

 

by: dontdigPosted on 2009-07-07 at 06:39:07ID: 24794087

Ty omar

/etc/rc3.d/S90samba doesnt exist i dont know y but  /usr/sfw/sbin/smbd -D did the job and then pkill to stop

but y /etc/rc3.d/S90samba is not here?

 

by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-07-07 at 06:54:58ID: 24794226

I am not sure why ! I have it on my system and you can simply add it to your system. You can simply create with runing

echo '#!/sbin/sh
#
# Copyright (c) 2001 by Sun Microsystems, Inc
# All rights reserved.
#
#ident  "@(#)samba      1.1     01/09/24 SMI"

case "$1" in
start)
        [ -f /etc/sfw/smb.conf ] || exit 0

        /usr/sfw/sbin/smbd -D
        /usr/sfw/sbin/nmbd -D
        ;;
stop)
        pkill smbd
        pkill nmbd
        ;;
*)
        echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop }"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
exit 0' > /etc/rc3.d/S90samba

chown root:sys /etc/rc3.d/S90samba
chmod 744 /etc/rc3.d/S90samba

 

by: dontdigPosted on 2009-07-07 at 07:09:21ID: 31599624

Thanks Omar :-)

 

by: dontdigPosted on 2009-07-07 at 11:22:56ID: 24796807

just one more thing bit out of topic

may i know that where people are implementing solaris i mean about objective like for an web server ?
I want to know  actual usage of an solaris O.S in our practical life see there are many more easier to handle server are available like cent 0.S



Thanks :-)

 

by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-07-07 at 11:29:23ID: 24796874

solaris is very popular OS and widely used as web server, mail server, directory / LDAP server, etc.

Many free and commercial S/W packages are developed and available on it.

solaris runs on sparc and x86 platforms and recently Sun released it as open source ( Open Solaris)

 

by: dontdigPosted on 2009-07-08 at 04:52:46ID: 24802700

thanks for information

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