Ahhh.... I didn't notice the packaging stuff at all. I have now found Buchan' site with all the prebuilt rpms. I wish I had known about that a couple of days ago - oh well!
Yes I have read the howto's reasonably extensively (although abviously managing to skip the most important bits). The LDAP section assumes you know something about LDAP - although I can't really complain about this. A complete idiots guide to setting up the LDAP server might be nice, but I'm starting to feel the heat already :-). I'll go and read about it! I'll have a go with the Mandrake rpms and see what happens... watch this space. Thanks! Much better off than half an hour ago.... Howard Quoting John H Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Howard Miller wrote: > > Those who prepare the packaging for Linux systems go to much trouble > to > solve this sort of issue. The easiest way to build RPS for your > platform > is: > > 1. cd ~samba/packaging/Mandrake > 2. sh makerpms.sh > > That should build your RPMS and you should find them in > /usr/src/packaging/RPMS/i386 > > If these have the same problem then please post to this list and > chances > are the Buchan Milne (who handles the Mandrake RPMs) will chip in to > help > you over the humps. > > In the ~samba/docs directory you should find the > Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf file. It is reasonably current (will soon > be > published as a book by Prentice-Hall - that version is a little more > recent and thus more up to date). > > This HOWTO has information about just about every topic you might > need. > If it is deficient in any area please let me know - that way I can fix > it. > > Let me know how else I can help you. > > - John T. > > > > Thanks for taking an interest before we go any further... > > > > I am building this on Mandrake 9.1. I used the latest beta release of > Samba. > > > > I unzipped it and then.... > > cd source > > ./configure > > make > > su > > make install > > > > Worked fine (although config.log did show some comilatio errors in > "test" programs), installed and > > on the face of it ran. Rapidly came unstuck with temp file problems > though. Oher basic > > functionality seems fine (as long as you log in as root on the Windoze > machine :-) ) > > > > BTW: I was keen on using the mysql support (as I don't have the first > clue about LDAP) but couldn't > > get this to work at all. The version test program (well I guess that's > what it is) failed to compile > > with lots of undefined identifier errors. If I disabled the test > program then mysql.so wouldn't > > compile anyway. I had to download and compile my own MySql into > /usr/local/mysql before even > > getting that far. So back to smbpasswd at the moment. > > > > Howard > > > > Quoting John H Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Howard Miller wrote: > > > > > > > Yes I did build the binaries myself.... I have had a really bad > time > > > with Samba 3, considering earlier > > > > versions have posed no problems at all. > > > > > > What platform are you building this on? > > > > > > What steps are you following to build this? > > > > > > > > > > > Where do you think I might have gone wrong with the temp thing? > > > > > > There are a number of gotcha's that could have hit you in the > face. > > > Let's > > > take this one step at a time. > > > > > > - John T. > > > > > > > > > > > Quoting John H Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Howard Miller wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > This is a slight rework of my last question but should be > > > clearer. > > > > > > > > > > > > My samba installation appears to be trying to use /root/tmp > as > > > its > > > > > temp directory. This is > > > > > > useless as when logged in as a user the system has no access > to > > > the > > > > > temp directory and so > > > > > > nothing works. How do I pursaude Samba to use /tmp as the > temp > > > dir. I > > > > > am running Samba > > > > > > 3 on a Mandrake system. > > > > > > > > > > Make sure that your TMPDIR in the environment is set to "/tmp" > > > before > > > > > you > > > > > launch smbd. ie:In the /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb script, before > > > executing > > > > > smbd > > > > > add an entry that says: > > > > > > > > > > export TMPDIR=/tmp > > > > > > > > > > That should solve your immediate problems. > > > > > > > > > > Did you build the samba binaries yourself? > > > > > > > > > > - John T. > > > > > -- > > > > > John H Terpstra > > > > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read > the > > > > > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > John H Terpstra > > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > John H Terpstra > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
