Greetings! I am trying to set up Samba for the first time and I have one little snag.... I can't find smbd or nmbd. I have both the Samba Client and the Samba Server packages installed. Are these part of a different package that I overlooked? Thanks!

Fedora Core 2

typically it is in :
but federa might be a different ball game, never used it before ...

You can start samba via the menu -> system settings -> server settings -> services.

You can configure some basic samba configurations via the menu -> system settings -> server settings -> samba

For non GUI command use /sbin/chkconfig --list samba

To automatically run smbd and nmbd daemon of Samba during boot-up, you need to do this:

# chkconfig --levels 2345 smb on

Then run chkconfig --list agian, you should see there the smb enabled (turned "on") under these run levels. Try to interchange "smb" and "on" if chkconfig returns error (or it could be smbd and not smb) cause I'm not that sure with chkconfig of Red Hat now since I'm now a convert of Slackware. Much better if you will get the help docs of chkconfig by executing "chkconfig --help" or "man chkconfig".

To manually start and restart smbd, do this:

# /etc/init.d/smb start --- to start it if not yet running
# /etc/init.d/smb restart --- to restart and reload your new smb.conf
# /etc/init.d/smb stop --- to stop it once running

To test if your samba is now running:

# smbclient -L localhost

Then the shares that you declared on your smb.conf shall be listed. If will prompt for a password, just strike Enter key.

Hope this helps. Good day!