You never mentionned the OS vesion.. (and architecture though I believe in this case not thatimportant...)
If HP standard, you should find in /sbin/init.d a start/stop program called samba:
you run it as root:
Code:
/sbin/init.d/samba start
What does that give?
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and:
Code:
ant:/sm/cron $ more /etc/rc.config.d/samba
#
# (c) Copyright Hewlett-Packard Company 1999
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
# your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See GNU General
# Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
#
# samba configuration: set RUN_SAMBA to a non-zero value to
# initiate the SAMBA server at run level 2.
#
# Installed at /etc/rc.config.d/samba
#
RUN_SAMBA=1
samba: END