Upgrading Samba on a SuSE7.1 machine.
Dear all, I have a healthy server running Samba on SuSE7.1. I feel very hesitant to upgrade to 8.1 at this point since everything is working just fine. I have the 8.1 CDs from a friend who downloaded them from the internet and the only program that I need to upgrade is Samba (because it is 2.2.0 and I need something a bit newer in order to overcome the Win2000 problem). I tried installing the 8.1's Samba package but it is comming up with a whole lot of dependencies all over my screen. Can someone please tell me which files I need to install prior to the Samba installation in order to resolve all the dependencies? I am awful with lib.* files so I would really be obligated for any assistance to this issue. I know that there are certain files which contain the libraries needed by Samba but I have no idea which ones they are!!! Thank you folks! Chris
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Chris Roubekas wrote:
overcome the Win2000 problem).
I must suggest to you that you either build your samba from source code. Compile them at home. It usually means to download the tar.gz file, use tar zxvf file.tar.gz cd <created-dir> /configure make and if everything is fine so far, then do as root make install This should install samba for you. Copy the relevant options from your existing smb.conf to the new smb.conf, start samba and it should be okay for you. But what I must suggest to you, is that you upgrade your system. Do not install X on it. Or even if you install it, run it without X windows. You might need some libs, but you do not need to use X for running samba. As you have 7.1, I presume this machine is not a 2 GHz P4 or Athlon. Newer samba, shall help you. Rohit ********************************************************* Disclaimer This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ********************************************************* Visit us at http://www.mahindrabt.com
The Tuesday 2003-11-25 at 09:30 +0200, Chris Roubekas wrote:
I have the 8.1 CDs from a friend who downloaded them from the internet and the only program that I need to upgrade is Samba (because it is 2.2.0 and I need something a bit newer in order to overcome the Win2000 problem).
You probably need to recompile it from sources. As to how, I don't use samba. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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