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Comments and suggestions concerning this book should be mailed to gmourani@videotron.ca © Copyright 1999-2000 Gerhard Mourani and Open Network Architecture ® 426 Configuration of the “/etc/lmhosts” file Configure your “/etc/lmhosts” file. The “lmhosts” file is the Samba Net BIOS name to IP address mapping file. It is very similar to the “/etc/hosts” file format, except that the hostname component must correspond to the Net BIOS naming format. Create the lmhosts file (touch /etc/lmhosts) and add your client hosts: # Sample Samba lmhosts file. # 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 deep 192.168.1.4 win In our example, this file contains three IP to Net BIOS name mappings. The localhost (127.0.0.1), client named deep (192.168.1.1) and client named win (192.168.1.4). Configuration of the “/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb” script file Configure your “/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb” script file to start and stop Samba smbd and nmbd daemons Server automaticaly. Create the smb script file (touch /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb) and add the following lines: #!/bin/sh # # chkconfig: - 91 35 # description: Starts and stops the Samba smbd and nmbd daemons \ #        used to provide SMB network services. # Source function library. . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions # Source networking configuration. . /etc/sysconfig/network # Check that networking is up. [ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0 # Check that smb.conf exists. [ -f /etc/smb.conf ] || exit 0 RETVAL=0 # See how we were called. case "$1" in   start) echo -n "Starting SMB services: " daemon smbd -D   RETVAL=$? echo echo -n "Starting NMB services: " daemon nmbd -D   RETVAL2=$? echo [ $RETVAL -eq 0 -a $RETVAL2 -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/smb || \    RETVAL=1 ;;   stop)