Path command

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 03 May 2013 15:59:56 Avi Greenbury did opine:

> Stephen wrote:
> > according to all the commands I have tried the path is good. Here is
> > the read out when I try to start samba
> > 
> > [sudo] password for stephen:
> > root at Desk:~# samba
> 
> If you're running a command that's simply 'samba', you're probably not
> following a very ubuntu-y means of installing it.
> 
> How to remove what you've already installed is quite dependent on what
> you've already installed and how you did it - it's probable that the
> normal means of uninstalling software (apt-get) wont work.
> 
> Could you let us have a link to the guide you've been following?

Whatever guide it is that he is following Avi, its old enough to sit in a 
normal chair at the dinner table as its been several years now that 'samba' 
has been renamed cifs, for Common Internet File System.

From the looms of my 10.04-4 LTS /usr/sbin, there is not a samba executable 
in the form of smb or nmb, but there is a cifs.upcall which is a relatively 
large binary.

However, if that is present (I don't fool with it myself, too many winderz 
limitations come with it, but he should have, in /etc/init.d, a startup 
script, and he may have to do some local configuration before it will 
actually run.

Here, I don't use it, so neither my /etc/init.d, or /etc/default has 
startup scripts for it.  I do however, have an /etc/samba/smb.conf 
approaching a year since its been 'touched', probably by the update-
manager.

Here I use NFS for the samba like file moving.  And cups does its own 
printer sharing, so samba would be a 19th wheel on this truck. :)

Cheers, Gene
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