Hi, I noticed this thread in the digest mailing. Actually the HOWTO is correct ( I know lots of folks would just love the ole yum/apt-get <huge-list-of-packages> and please build it for me too method ) as it states above the distro specific instructions that python-devel is a required package. I see someone added the extra packages to the RedHat 6.X section. I just moved up the Python development into a *Required* libraries so folks actually check that python-devel is in fact installed before getting all excited to run ./configure. :-P --- past from wiki --- Step 2: Compile Samba4 Required development libraries: Python development libraries (python-dev in Debian/Ubuntu) required to compile Recommended optional development libraries: acl and xattr development libraries (libattr1-dev package in Debian/Ubuntu) blkid development libraries (libblkid-dev package in Debian/Ubuntu) gnutls (libgnutls-dev package in Debian/Ubuntu) readline (libreadline5-dev package in Debian/Ubuntu) ------ end past from wiki ---------- Subject: [Samba] Need to correct samba4 how to ? Hello All I noticed same minor imperfection on Samba4 How To page. Installation on CentOS6. Cheers, - Bob