samba - Aug 2011 - Directly replace smb.

Hi,all,
     I have a redhat linux of 2.6.24 kernel(x86_64), which smb is 3.0, I 
want to upgrade it, but the system doesn't have gcc development and no 
rpm, that means I can't upgrade the smb on this machine.So I compile the 
new samba on other machine and copy necessary files and replace them on 
my target machine and checked:

smbd -V
nmbd -V
winbind -V

are all the right version, but I can't start the service: service smb 
start and etc. are all failed. what's wrong with my method?

My smb configure as below:

    SBINDIR: /usr/sbin
    BINDIR: /usr/bin
    SWATDIR: /etc/swat
    CONFIGFILE: /etc/samba/smb.conf
    LOGFILEBASE: /var/samba
    LMHOSTSFILE: /etc/samba/lmhosts
    LIBDIR: /usr/lib
    MODULESDIR: /usr/lib
    SHLIBEXT: so
    LOCKDIR: /usr/var/locks
    STATEDIR: /usr/var/locks
    CACHEDIR: /usr/var/locks
    PIDDIR: /usr/var/locks
    SMB_PASSWD_FILE: /usr/private/smbpasswd
    PRIVATE_DIR: /usr/private

On 16 August 2011 04:06, yyq at eisoo.com <yyq at eisoo.com>
wrote:
> Hi,all,
> ? ?I have a redhat linux of 2.6.24 kernel(x86_64), which smb is 3.0, I want
> to upgrade it, but the system doesn't have gcc development and no rpm,
that
> means I can't upgrade the smb on this machine.So I compile the new
samba on
> other machine and copy necessary files and replace them on my target
machine
> and checked:
>
> smbd -V
> nmbd -V
> winbind -V
>
> are all the right version, but I can't start the service: service smb
start
> and etc. are all failed. what's wrong with my method?
In what way are they all failing?  What error messages do you get?

I don't know what you mean by "and no rpm".  Do you mean the rpm
command or database is missing/broken?  Or do you mean you have not
found a compatible RPM?

SerNet (www.sernet.de) has RPMs for various versions of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.  See here:

http://enterprisesamba.com/index.php?id=54
> My smb configure as below:
>
> ? SBINDIR: /usr/sbin
> ? BINDIR: /usr/bin
> ? SWATDIR: /etc/swat
> ? CONFIGFILE: /etc/samba/smb.conf
> ? LOGFILEBASE: /var/samba
> ? LMHOSTSFILE: /etc/samba/lmhosts
> ? LIBDIR: /usr/lib
> ? MODULESDIR: /usr/lib
> ? SHLIBEXT: so
> ? LOCKDIR: /usr/var/locks
> ? STATEDIR: /usr/var/locks
> ? CACHEDIR: /usr/var/locks
> ? PIDDIR: /usr/var/locks
> ? SMB_PASSWD_FILE: /usr/private/smbpasswd
> ? PRIVATE_DIR: /usr/private
-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:06 PM, yyq at eisoo.com <yyq at eisoo.com>
wrote:
> Hi,all,
> ? ?I have a redhat linux of 2.6.24 kernel(x86_64), which smb is 3.0, I want
> to upgrade it, but the system doesn't have gcc development and no rpm,
that
> means I can't upgrade the smb on this machine.So I compile the new
samba on
> other machine and copy necessary files and replace them on my target
machine
> and checked:
without seeing error messages, anything anyone says is pure
speculation.  My speculation is that you have library version
mismatches.

worst case, or maybe even the "right way", is that you'll need to
clone the system to a test system or a virtual machine, install gcc
and the devel libs for the versions installed of all samba
dependencies and then compile.