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Confirm that the RPMs were added, as Example 10-16 shows.
Example 10-16 Confirming added RPMs
# rpm -qa | grep samba
samba-common-3.0.10-1.4E.6
samba-client-3.0.10-1.4E.6
samba-3.0.10-1.4E.6
10.3.2 Editing the Samba configuration file
The one configuration file for Samba is /etc/samba/smb.conf. It is easy to add a Server
Message Block (SMB) share that the Samba server makes available. A good test directory is
/usr/share/doc/, because it has good Linux documentation. Example 10-17 creates a file
share named sharedoc.
Example 10-17 Configuring smb.conf
# cd /etc/samba ...
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