samba - May 2017 - Howto switch from distribution to self compiled?

Hi,

I want to switch from an old samba 3.6 of a Linux distribution, to a new 
and self compiled samba, which is in different directories 
(usr/local/samba).

Which files do I need to copy from the old place to the new?
Which ones are only temporary files, and can be discarded?

This is from the output of "smbd -b"

old:
    SBINDIR: /usr/sbin
    BINDIR: /usr/bin
    SWATDIR: /usr/share/swat
    CONFIGFILE: /etc/samba/smb.conf
    LOGFILEBASE: /var/log/samba
    LMHOSTSFILE: /etc/samba/lmhosts
    LIBDIR: /usr/lib64
    MODULESDIR: /usr/lib64/samba
    SHLIBEXT: so
    LOCKDIR: /var/lib/samba
    STATEDIR: /var/lib/samba
    CACHEDIR: /var/lib/samba
    PIDDIR: /var/run
    SMB_PASSWD_FILE: /var/lib/samba/private/smbpasswd
    PRIVATE_DIR: /var/lib/samba/private
    NCALRPCDIR: /var/ncalrpc
    NMBDSOCKETDIR: /var/nmbd

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

The server runs as standalone. I want to switch later to AD.

In switching from pre-compiled to self-compiled packages, we found it
easier to just modify the ./configure arguments to point the desired
(previous) directories.

i.e.

./configure --with-configdir=/etc/samba --sbindir=/usr/sbin
--bindir=/usr/bin --with-logfilebase=/var/log/samba --libdir=/usr/lib64
--with-modulesdir=/usr/lib64/samba --with-lockdir=/var/cache/samba
--with-statedir=/var/lib/samba --with-cachedir=/var/cache/samba
--with-piddir=/var/run/samba --with-privatedir=/var/lib/samba/private

(Note: these may not be the same paths as you've listed)

Hi Klaus,

Am 24.05.2017 um 15:02 schrieb Klaus Hartnegg via samba:
> I want to switch from an old samba 3.6 of a Linux distribution, to a new 
> and self compiled samba, which is in different directories 
> (usr/local/samba).
I started 2 weeks ago with a documentation that covers this scenario. 
However, I didn't had time to finish it yet. If I find time to work on 
this, I will publish it next week.

Regards,
Marc