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...
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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
pls help me out guys
Ty alot
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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
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in the link below (already given)
http://forums.sun.com/thre
Follow the steps from
Sep 18, 2006 11:23 PM (reply 4 of 20) (In reply to #3 )
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
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by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-07-03 at 15:49:41ID: 24774834
solaris 10 comes with samba installed. if not then try this link
gramlistsp arc10.html #samba
pub/freewa re/sparc/1 0/samba-3. 2.4- sol10- sparc-loca l.gz
http://sunfreeware.com/pro
ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/