How to check if Samba is installed

Question

I don't know if Samba is pre-installed in my Linux system.

I have the /etc/samba/ directory, with smb.conf file. But if I try one of these commands

sudo service smb start
sudo service samba start
sudo service smbd start

the answer is always unrecognized service.

In /etc/init.d there is no file like smb, samba or smbd. How could I check anymore?

Thank you anyway!

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 27 '14 at 18:22

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The easier way is to check with your package manager. dpkg, yum, emerge, etc. If that doesn't work, you just need to type samba --version and if it's in your path it should work. Lastly you can use find / -executable -name samba to find any executable named samba. If those test are negative, is highly probable that you don't have samba installed.

answered Mar 27 '14 at 18:22

Braiam

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The commands relevant for the current Fedora release (25) are `rpm --query samba`, `dnf list installed samba`, `smbd --version`, and `find /usr/sbin/ -executable -name smbd`. The command to check the service is `systemctl status smb`. – Bob May 29 '17 at 13:46

user311086 · Answer 2 · 2022-06-15T15:54:07.843

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In SMB version 4.11.6-Ubuntu, run the following command:

systemctl status smbd

edited Jun 15 '22 at 15:54

answered Mar 03 '21 at 10:21

user311086

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Thanks for this alternative and suitable way. Note that `sudo` is not necessary. – BowPark Mar 04 '21 at 09:54
`sudo` is not required. – Sergey Podobry Jun 13 '22 at 14:11
@user311086 It's funny that I can't edit your answer as it requires changing more than 6 characters and removing `sudo ` is just 5 characters. – Sergey Podobry Jun 14 '22 at 19:30

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 07 '17 at 13:48

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Use the smbstatus command

you see below. version 3.6.23-14.el6_6 and status of you samba process and user, group etc...

answered Jul 07 '17 at 13:48

dipak

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Can you give some example, recommendations, etc. – Romeo Ninov Jul 07 '17 at 13:59

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 30 '17 at 11:48

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There is an even easier way to check for installed programs. You can check for any installed program by typing:

~$ which [program]

So in this case

~$ which samba

If it is installed, it gives you the location of it. If it isn't, you get an empty output.

answered May 30 '17 at 11:48

L3V14TH4N PR1M3

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That won't work in this case as there's no file named `samba`. `which smbd` would show if the server is installed -- but only if `/usr/sbin` is in the user's PATH. – Anthony Geoghegan May 30 '17 at 13:17

How to check if Samba is installed

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