Topic: Starting and Stopping Daemons etc

[elenmar]

I'm still fairly new to SME - installed 6.0.1 2 weeks ago on a home network. I use the server for file storage & DHCP as well as domain controller. Internet access is through a ADSL modem/router (Belkin - works fine)

My clients are XP or Win 98 and they work fine.

However, if I attach a Red HAt 7.3 client it can only see the Windows SAMBA shares and this has limited functionality.

I _think_ that what I need to do is to start the Network Service Daemon on the SME 6 box but I haven't a clue how to do this.

This is part of a bigger problem for me. The graphical server-manager is fine as far as it goes but how do I access other features such as starting and stopping daemons etc?

I'm not a complete stranger to the Linux command line but I'm not 1000% confident there either. Are there any linuxconf style tool which I can use?

I have the downloadable .pdf manuals and this forum is very useful for specifics but I can't seem to get 'the bigger picture' (if there is one) of the layer between the graphical server-manager and the command line.

For example, I recently tweaked the server so that it chaged the default boot image and did this by modifying a file in /etc after being given some instructions on how to do this in this forum. And it worked. However, someone then posted to say that this was not the proper way to do it. I am somewhat confused.

I guess that what I'm trying to ask (sorry about the length of this rather rambling post) is whether there is the equivalent of a 'Dummies book' for SME 6.0.1?

All help, tips, tricks & pointers will be welcomed with thanks.

Anthony.

[HomePlayer]

Anthony

I can only say this, sins I am new to linux when I started to use e-smith 4.something in 2000 or so,

Don’t try to fix something if it isn’t broken
What I mean is, hang in there read and study. After almost 4 years I am still a newbie to  Linux, but how ever I am getting better and better every try.
The hardest part for me was/ still is how to find the write information to get the things done I need to do/fix, since the Linux community uses so many different names then MS(Billy) does.

 

However, if I attach a Red HAt 7.3 client it can only see the Windows SAMBA shares and this has limited functionality.

What are you trying to do, what is it you like to do.

How did you find your way around whit RAD HAT do the same whit SME

For example, I recently tweaked the server so that it chaged the default boot image and did this by modifying a file in /etc after being given some instructions on how to do this in this forum. And it worked. However, someone then posted to say that this was not the proper way to do it. I am somewhat confused.

It did work, but be careful, sme uses templates, this means that we have to make a custom template  and install this, so that after a reboot your chances sty in place, if some one tells that is the wrong way, ask them the write way lol
 About this topic there is lots to find here in the forums.

I know no match of help, but you know people are willing to help around here.

Have a blast I do.
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[elenmar]

Thanks.

What I wanted to do with Red Hat was to connect to SME server directly i.e. not through SAMBA.

In order to do this (I think) I need to be running NFS daemon on the server box. There isn't an option to do this in the browser interface so I need to know how to do it from a commnand line or find some sort of configuration tool along the lines of linuxconf.

Another thing which puzzles me is user accounts. Its easy to set up a user account but how so I change (say) permissions - is this a command line job?


As for templates - I can't seem to find anything about what they are or how to use them. Perhaps I have been looking in the wrong places!

As I said in my original post there seems to be a whole layer of stuff between the browser interface and the command line and I can't find any tools to do things like start and stop services & so forth that I would do in Red Hat through Gnome.

After only 2 weeks of use I can't expect to know everything. It seems to me that the default setup is nice & easy (and I'm all in favour of that) but that changing the defaults is, in my present state of ignorance, damn near impossible.

Any help or comments will be appreciated.

Anthony.

[Damian]

Hi Anthony,

Have a look at http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=24054.0

Damian

[elenmar]

thanks. I have bookmarked the reference and will come back to it in a day or two.

Right now I'm fighting a losing battle (on a differetn setup)with smoothwall

Anthony

[Damian]

OK. Scream if you need help with that too.

Damian