>>I finally made my mind up and got two NICs for setting up my minimal network.
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>So this linux machine is going to be a firewall/masq'er and run samba?
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No, but I plan to set it up as domain/master.

>>I had some trouble understanding the way RedHat installed the Samba client and common RPMs at the OS installation.
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>>RPMs are funky sometimes. I think that the common are the libraries, the client installs things like smbmount, and the server installs nmb (the netbios daemon).
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>>I couldn't find /usr/local/samba or the tar file or the configure file. What I ended up doing was uninstalling these RPMs and installing the source RPM. From that point on I followed the transcript of the samba installation chat you hosted.
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>This is another "RPM's are wacky" situations. Redhat likes to 'customize' paths. It is a pain sometimes, but since you can always do rpm -e to uninstall everything, I guess its okay. =)
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>>OK, after all the preamble my question is this: I am at the point of trying to get the SWAT working and other instructions I have (Using samba book by OReilly) point to modifying the inetd.conf file but it turns out my /etc directory does not contain this file. (more preamble..) What other service/daemon do I need to setup in order to have this file installed or can I just create a new one?
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>SWAT is kinda ugly. Sure, it is a web interface and good for beginners, but I think you would be better just manually editing '/etc/smb.conf'. If you just did a clean RH 6.2 install and you don't have '/etc/inetd.conf', there is a fairly large problem. 'inetd' (the internet super daemon) controls tons of services in 6.2 (in 7 it was replaced with xinetd, which uses a cleaner, more secure way of launching services). Do 'rpm -q netkit-base'. It should return a version. That is the package that provides inetd. If it returns "package xx is not installed, you may want to format and start over cause you may have missed some other very important basic packages since many depend on netkit-base.
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I will try that command. I don't know if I should invest more time with 6.2 or just get 7.0 installed. Is RH7.0 available for download? Does it have an upgrade path? I couldn't find any links on the Red Hat site.

>>Right now the Linux PC can see the windows one but not the other way around. I am going through hell trying to get NT4 to see the NIC. If I boot to DOS and run the diagnostic program it sees and configures it but when I boot to NT it just won't see it. It is an old 3COM ISA NIC I got used for 4 bucks. (that's what I get for being cheap..)
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>So NT isn't installing the drivers for its NIC? There is probably an NT install file on 3Com's site that will auto-configure the NIC for NT and setup the drivers.
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The drivers are installed, but when I try to access 3COM NIC doctor for configuration it says there are no NIC's installed.

Now that last part got me thinking: when I do smbclient -L myhostname it lists the NT wks machine. Am I dreaming here or does the NIC needs to be working for this to happen?

Thanks for your help.