On Monday 23 November 2015 13:16:52 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:11:47 +0200 > > Teemu Likonen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Renaud OLGIATI [2015-11-23 12:59:38-03] wrote: > > > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig -–add smb > > > > ^^ > > You have these two different characters there: > > > > - U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS > > – U+2013 EN DASH > > > > But you should have “--add”, that is, two times U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS. > > OK Ta; changed the CL to what you gave me: > > root@ron:/home/ron # chkconfig --add smb You forgot the runlevel # chkconfig --add smb 3,4,5
> smb: unknown service > And I believe, if you check to see whats in /etc/init.d, you'll find a different name for the service, possibly cifs, which stands for Common Internet File System according to The folks in Redmond WA who dreamed up this thing. I personally am haveing MUCH better luck using sshfs, however all 5 machines on my local network are running linux. I put a bounty on wipeing windows from anything I own in about 1997. No regrets yet. YMMV of course. > Just checked in Synaptic, have both Samba, Samba-common and > Samba-common-bin installed. > > Remain firmly flabbered... Take a look in /etc/init.d, reading those scripts can be very educational. > Cheers, > > Ron. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

