Re: Notebook Install from CD on network - problems

["Barry Drake" <bldrake imation com>]

Rob,
Sorry, I didn't see your reply until reading Kevin Colby's later.  I am
assuming you already have SMB services installed on your Linux box, which
may have occurred when you installed RH 5.1.

With that assumption:

1.  I use Midnight Commander from the command line and the little editor it
includes.  I love this file browser.  Type mc at the shell prompt.

2.  From inside MC I browse to the /etc directory and scroll down to the
smb.conf file using the mouse or the kbd.  I highlight that file and click
on edit (not the Unix I remember!!!).  You can then use the editor to edit,
read, save, etc. that file.  Make a backup of your original first!  I copy
to smb.conf.original.

3. I then exit MC after saving my changes.  Since I'm lazy I use
CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot which issures a shutdown -t3 -r now command I
believe.

NOTE: You are supposed to be able to use smb stop and then smb start to make
the changes take effect.  But, this has never worked for me.

I did all this after COMPLETING the installation of Linux from the hard
drive that Linux was installed to.  Perhaps I misunderstood your question
yesterday as Kevin seems to indicate.  Sorry about that if that's the case.
Barry

P.S.  And thank you Kevin.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Hills <rhills medimorphosis com au>
To: redhat-install-list redhat com <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Cc: Red Hat Install List <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: Notebook Install from CD on network - problems


>
>
>Hi Barry,
>
>Many thanks for the reply.  I'm afraid I have to follow up with some
>more dumb questions...
>
>1.      What did you use to edit the /edt/smb.conf file?
>
>2.      Was this on the hdd of the machine having Linux installed, or
>on one of the install floppies?  (if on one of the install floppies, is
>there any way of editing it from DOS/Windoze, if one doesn't have
>Linux installed anywhere yet?)
>
>3.      At what point during the install process did you reboot?
>
>4.      Assuming that the smb.conf that you edited was on the hdd,
>how did you get the Linux install process to use it after rebooting
>and restarting the install process from scratch?
>
>5.      Finally, at what point during the install process did you run
>smbpasswd?
>
>On 22 Oct 98, at 13:34, Barry Drake wrote:
>
>> I'm using SMB with two Linux boxes and a Win98 box.  I had edit
>> the /etc/smb.conf file by hand and then reboot.  There are comments
>> in the file that tell you what needs to be setup.  Also, you need
>> to run the smbpasswd -a <username> program on your Linux boxes.
>> It's easier if you use the SAME user name and password on all you
>> systems when setting things up the first time.  I didn't have to
>> set up DNS or host names or any of that stuff.  Keep it simple at
>> first... leave those blank.
>> Barry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rob Hills <rhills medimorphosis com au>
>> To: redhat-install-list redhat com <redhat-install-
>list redhat com>
>> Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 10:51 AM
>> Subject: Notebook Install from CD on network - problems
>>
>>
>> >I am having real trouble getting to first base!  My situation is:
>> >
>> >1.      Small network - 1 "server" (Win NT 4 SP3 workstation), 1
>> >desktop (Win 95) and 1 notebook (Linux hopeful).
>> >
>> >2.      Running TCP/IP with fixed IP addresses.  Win NT box is
>> >192.168.0.2.  Notebook is to be 192.168.0.101
>> >
>
>> >I created the boot & supplemental disks and ran through the
>> > install process.  The first few times I went for an SMB
>> > Installation.  My first problem came with the networking setup
>> > screens....
>
><snip>
>
>> >To cut a long story short, when I put in the SMB server name
>> >(tammar) and the correct share volume, username and password, I
>> >just got the "something didn't work, try again" (paraphrased)
>> >error message.  Looking at the other terminals, I noticed on one
>> >of them a cryptic "running bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/smbfs.0
>> >insmod failed" message.
>
>TIA.
>
>
>Rob Hills
>MBBS, Grad Dip Com Stud, MACS
>MediMorphosis Pty Ltd
>Medical Informatics Consultancy
>Tel:    (0412) 904 357
>Fax:    (08) 9281 4277
>Email:  rhills medimorphosis com au
>
>
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