Samba install problem

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 18:42 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:58 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
> >> > Freedom Web Services wrote:
> >> >> Although dhcp is allocating ip addresses ok I can not access the
> >> >> server using its name 'linux'.  I assume this is due to samba not
> >> >> running.
> >> >
> >> > A more general network problem may well be the first cause of your
> >> > problems.
> >> >
> >> >> I need to install samba as the system says it is not installed when
> >> >> I use 'rpm -q smb', so I downloaded 'samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm'.
> >> >> When I go to install it with 'rpm -ivh samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm
> >> >> I get loads of confiction errors.
> >> >
> >> > It's much preferable to use yum these days.  There's no need to
> >> > download the rpm or deal with dependencies manually.
> >> >
> >> >> I have also tried to use the 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software
> >> >> Updater' from the 'Applications' menu and get an 'Unable to retrive
> >> >> software infomation' error.  When I try to use yum with the command
> >> >> 'yum install samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm' I get an 'Error: Cannot
> >> >> find a baseurl for repo: core'.
> >> >
> >> > This looks like you have a more general networking problem on the
> >> > system.  Have you tried to run 'yum update' yet?  I'm guessing you'll
> >> > get a similar error about the core repo.  If so, you should check
> >> > first that your network is working correctly.  If it is, then you'll
> >> > need to look into the reason yum is not working.
> >> >
> >> > Once yum is working you should be able to run 'yum install samba' (or
> >> > Add / Remove Software) to get it installed.
> >>
> >> My Linux machine is not yet connected to the internet!
> >
> > That's why 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software Updater' from the
> > 'Applications' menu aren't working. They use yum as the backend and
> > that's configured out of the box to get packages from the Internet.
> >
> > For a way of using yum and 'Add / Remove software' using the ISO images
> > used to install the system instead of network repositories, see:
> > http://www.city-fan.org/tips/YumRepoFromImages
> >
> >> I have a BT Voyager 100 ADSL USB modem and connect through AOL on my 
> >> windoze
> >> box.
> >> I have installed the drivers for this modem, eciadsl, and configured it 
> >> for
> >> my modem and AOL but I can not get it to work.
> >> I have looked on the net and found that I need a module called n_hdlc in
> >> order to get this to work, the standard FC5 does not have this module.
> >
> > It's in the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel though. Try downloading and
> > installing that update. Much easier than recompiling the kernel
> > yourself.
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> 
> Thanks for the help Paul.
> 
> I have downloaded and installed the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernal update but 
> unfornatunatly this does not solve the problem.  The eciadsl-doctor program 
> still shows that the n_hdlc module is not found, it also reports that I am 
> using the 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 kernal, how can this be when I have just 
> installed the updated kernal with no problems?  Am I missing something?

You won't be using the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel until you've rebooted.

Paul,