I thought I'd put this together for those who might find it useful :
The scenario :
Running version of samba less than the current version that was provided by
the distribution.
Want to play with new features or just upgrade a running system.
The solution :
Download the source CD for your distribution. - A big download I know -
but you could buy it from cheeplinux/cheepbytes etc instead.
In this CD is generally a spec file for how the distributors installed,
which gives the correct configure options.
once you have compiled with those options and any additional ones, do a
make install, kill all samba daemons and start them again, and hey presto -
all files installed as per the originals.
I provide here the slackware 8 options, 'cos I have them, if anyone
want's
to send me their distro's spec file, I can become the maintainer of a
migration-to-source howto.
address them to specs@theendofhistether.org.uk
Hope this helps someone,
Martyn
Specs for Slack 8 :
cd source
./configure \
--with-fhs \
--prefix=/usr \
--localstatedir=/var \
--bindir=/usr/bin \
--sbindir=/usr/sbin \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--with-configdir=/etc/samba \
--with-privatedir=/etc/samba/private \
--with-codepagedir=/etc/codepages \
--with-smbmount \
--with-quotas \
--with-syslog \
--with-utmp \
--with-netatalk \
--with-sambabook=/usr/share/swat/using_samba \
--with-ssl \
--with-sslinc=/usr/include/openssl \
--with-msdfs \
--with-vfs \
i386-slackware-linux
make
=============Martyn Ranyard
