samba config problems

[Jonathan McKeown]

On Thursday 14 June 2007 18:51, Andrew Falanga wrote:
> On 6/14/07, Reid Linnemann <lreid at cs.okstate.edu> wrote:
> > Don't forget to cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>
> Once again I apologize to the forum.  I keep forgetting to do this.
>
> > The rc script at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba follows the FreeBSD rcng
> > scheme, if the rcvar 'samba_enable' is not set to 'yes', then the script
> > will not start or stop the samba process.
> >
> > Run the script without any commands to see usage. To check the status of
> > rcvars that control the script's behavior, run the script with the
> > 'rcvar' argument; e.g.
> >
> > ~/> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba rcvar
> > # samba
> > $samba_enable=YES
> > # nmbd
> > $nmbd_enable=YES
> > # smbd
> > $smbd_enable=YES
> > # winbindd
> > $winbindd_enable=NO
> >
> > Note that nothign is stopping you from running smbd and nmbd manually,
> > the rc control script simply automates the control of the daemon for you.
>
> Ah, thank you.  Very enlightening.  I guess I'll have to read through
> that section of the Handbook to make sure I understand how all that
> works together.  I finally did get it working by starting the smbd
> "manually."
>
> Thanks,
> Andy

Just to add to this: if you want to start the service as a one-off without 
putting the enabling variable in /etc/rc.conf, use onestart instead of start 
(this also works with stop|onestop and status|onestatus).

Jonathan