Fellow samba users,
I had some problems with trying to get samba running properly on
Linux (RedHat 5.2), but now I've got it working.
Two things I learned:
1) Use the packaging/RedHat/makerpms.sh script. It will generate a
RedHat compatible rpm for you. I had to make these changes to it
though:
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--- makerpms.sh.orig Mon Dec 14 22:52:41 1998
+++ makerpms.sh Tue Dec 15 17:42:30 1998
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
SPECDIR=`rpm --showrc | awk '/^specdir/ { print $3}'`
SRCDIR=`rpm --showrc | awk '/^sourcedir/ { print $3}'`
-( cd ../../.. ; tar czvf ${SRCDIR}/samba-2.0.0beta4.tar.gz samba-2.0.0beta4 )
+( cd ../../.. ; chown -R root.root samba-2.0.0beta4; tar czvf
${SRCDIR}/samba-2.0.0beta4.tar.gz samba-2.0.0beta4 )
cp -a *.spec $SPECDIR
cp -a *.patch smb.* samba.log $SRCDIR
-cd $SRCDIR
-chown -R root.root samba-2.0.0beta4
+cd $SRCDIR # These lines are probably
+chown -R root.root * # not needed with this method.
cd $SPECDIR
rpm -ba -v samba2.spec
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2) 'smbpasswd' seems to mark a user as disabled when changing the
password from the "XXX~" setting to a proper password UNLESS you
use the "-e" (enable) switch. That took me a little while to
figure out.
--
Scott D. Webster swebster@carroll.com
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