Hi,

I am trying to start samba server, but it won't work! I installed it with ipkg install samba (from backports) but after running /etc/init.d samba start nothing happens.

With top I searched for samba... but it isn't there.

with smbpasswd - a username I added my root account.

Or is there an other samba server that works?!

Btw: I cooked the kernel with vfat support like in the wiki pages... for mmc support (already works fine)

thanks!

Did you setup a smb.conf file?  The processes would be smbd and nmbd not "samba".

Have you run a Samba server on Linux before?

Of course I have set up the smb.conf And yes, I have installed and configured some samba servers on linux... and no, it's not smbd and nmbd, it's samba.

I haven't run it on OpenWRT lately but last I recall the startup script may be samba, but the processes that show up were smbd and nmbd.

I asked those questions, since you didn't specify them up-front.

Good luck.

Okay, but the processes aren't running, I am sure of that.

So what could it be?

My /etc/init.d/rcS tells me that it wouldnt run your /etc/init.d/samba at boot time because it doesnt start with an 'S'. So naming it /etc/init.d/S80samba may help here. If you installed the samba package to a different place than the default, you should add according LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PATH variables to the startup script. Or am I thinking too simple?

Well ok, so it's not autostart, no problem. But after manually starting it, or trying to, it doesn't run.

Its installed to tha standard place. simply with "ipkg install samba".