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[dave perry]

On 05/03/2013 01:47 PM, Stephen wrote:
> [sudo] password for stephen:
> root at Desk:~# samba
> Unknown parameter encountered: "max log size"
> Ignoring unknown parameter "max log size"
> Unknown parameter encountered: "syslog"
> Ignoring unknown parameter "syslog"
>     <snip>
Hi Stephen,

You should not try and start samba this way.
Depending on how you installed samba, it is likely that the samba
damon, smbd, is already running.
After you have made the appropriate edits to the
     /etc/samba/smb.conf
file, you need to restart samba from the command line with
     sudo restart smbd
to have the edited smb.conf file processed.

Which samba version did you install?  The default version for 12.10
installed by Ubuntu Software Center is 3.6.6.  If you have both
version 3 and 4 installed, you need to remove version 4.

You can find a lot of samba help using google.  Here is a link that
is fairly simple to follow.
http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed/?p=3967
It also covers setting up smbusers and passwords as well as walks
you through setting up a samba share.

Another great help for a new samba user is "Samba 3 by Example".
You should be able to find it via google and down load it as a pdf file.

Hope this helps.

Dave Perry