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Samba/iX Services

Starting and Stopping Samba/iX

The following example displays when you run the command

netcontrol status; net = lan1.

NETWORK NAME: LAN1

NETWORK IP ADDRESS: $0F0DC750 15.13.188.80

NETWORK SUBNET MASK: $0FF000000 255.0.0.0

Add PM Capability

To access share security modes, both samba and mgr.samba user

accounts should have PM capabilities.

1. Logon as manager.sys

2. Add PM capability to samba account

3. Add PM capability to mgr.samba user

Starting SMBD and NMBD Listener Jobs

1. Logon as mgr.samba

2. Copy the sample conﬁguration ﬁle samp-smb.conf, samp-printcap

and samp-user.map to smb.conf, printcap and user.map. Modify

the entries to suit your Samba/iX environment. The samp-smb.conf,

samp-princap and samp-user.map ﬁles reside in the

/usr/local/samba/lib directory.

3. Check your Samba/iX conﬁguration ﬁles with TESTPARM utility. The

TESTPARM utility resides in the /usr/local/samba/bin directory.

Run the following command:

shell/ix> testparm /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf.

4. Start your SMBD listener and NMBD server.

5. Use the jobs supplied as JSMB.SAMBA.SYS and JNMB.SAMBA.SYS and

stream them.

6. Use SHOWJOB to see if the jobs stay alive, it can look as follows:

JOBNUM STATE JIN JLIST JOB NAME

#J30 EXEC 10S LP NMBMON,MGR.SAMBA

#J31 EXEC 10S LP SMBMON,MGR.SAMBA