Hello, I am trying to download and install samba with winbind but I can not make it go to a different location, I do not want it to go to /usr/local/samba because when I do then the system does not use the new version. I have tried to link the new version with the old but I could not get that to work either. If someone can assist me in making an install go to an alternate location as well as how to make the system use the new install from an alternate location. I would like to know how to do both. Thanks, Jennifer Crusade GTESS Corp. CCNA, MCSE W2k\NT 4.0, MCP +I -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
On Thursday 24 October 2002 6:48 pm, Jennifer Crusade wrote:> Hello, > > I am trying to download and install samba with winbind but I can not make > it go to a different location, I do not want it to go to /usr/local/samba > because when I do then the system does not use the new version. I have > tried to link the new version with the old but I could not get that to work > either. > > If someone can assist me in making an install go to an alternate location > as well as how to make the system use the new install from an alternate > location. I would like to know how to do both. > > > Thanks, > > Jennifer Crusade > GTESS Corp. > CCNA, MCSE W2k\NT 4.0, MCP +IYou really don't suppy enough information. To whit: Are you installing binaries or source? What OS are you using? What architecture are you using? If you are installing binaries via rpm on a linux i386 platform then you need to man rpm. If you are installing binaries via package on FreeBSD you need to man pkg_add. as in pkg_add -p ..... If you are installing from source you need to do ./configure --prefix=/THEPLACEYOUWANTSAMBATOBEINSTALLED Then make install. If there's additional needs for installing samba with winbind support I don't really know since I don't use winbind. I only have about 8 users and I am lazy enough to install them on the server as unix users rather than learning about winbind. I know I suck. Oh well. And I don't understand what you mean by linking the new version to the old. In short, there are a lot of possible things for you to do, but not enough information from you to point you in the right direction. mark
Jennifer Crusade wrote:> > I am trying to download and install samba with winbind but I can not make it > go to a different location, I do not want it to go to /usr/local/samba > because when I do then the system does not use the new version. I have > tried to link the new version with the old but I could not get that to work > either. > > If someone can assist me in making an install go to an alternate location as > well as how to make the system use the new install from an alternate > location. I would like to know how to do both.I suggest you let the installation go to /usr/local/samba. You will need to take a look at your startup scripts. Since you didn't say what version of Unix you're running there, I'll go ahead and assume it's the same as I'm using. (That's what you get for not providing detailed information. ;-) On Red Hat Linux, the script to start Samba is /etc/init.d/smb. You can change it to run the daemons from /usr/local/samba/bin rather than /usr/sbin. I'm not sure, but I think that will do it. BTW, if you are having that much trouble getting the daemons to run from another installation directory, I wonder if you really want to try installing/configuring winbind! It's not nearly as simple. Jay Ts