May have fubar'd Samba install

[sarumont]

It may be easier to find the actual RPM (*.rpm) from RPM Find and install that with rpm -ivh samba*.rpm than compiling it by hand.

[irishmage]

Logan5,

May be we are having a syntax error here, that is fine.

Not to fight, but where did you say that you have read them? I only see

Yes. I am a newbie to ALL of this and don't post till I have exhausted all other options. Once I get past my basi hurdles I will be fine

When I stated had exhausted all other options this includes all documentation I can lay my hands on/print. I hope this helps when I post on questions.

Maybe you should think about installing samba with a program called yum or apt-get

I will be more than happy to try them (part of the learning process) Once I can get past my basic question "where do I download the RPMs to"? I have been downloading them to a directory I created called "Downloads" in my homw directory and am now led to believe this is wrong. Where DO I load them to if that is the case?

Sarumont,
As always hello and thank you. I have found rpmfind.net and it is a great site. I still need to know where to download too though.

As always thanks to all for any help anyone can give this illiterate newbie.

[logan5]

Download the rpm file anywhere you want. An rpm file is something like setup.exe in windows. After the install is complete you can delete the rpm file. If you run something like

  rpm -Uvh samba.rpm

It should unpack (unzip) and do the install. Just be root when you run the rpm command because it will want to write to directories that your user probably isn't able to.

See here for rpm commands - http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap3sec20.html
or
http://uw713doc.sco.com/en/LX_uw/LKP_rpm_commands.html

Something to keep in mind is that Linux (Unix) doesn't handle programs like windows. In windows when you install a program, everthing from that program goes to one directory. Something like c:\program files\my new program. But in Linux things very offten go to different directories. Samba will put files in /var, /etc, /etc/sysconfig, /usr/share, /usr/bin and /usr/lib. These come from my install and doing a find to see where some stuff is. It is probably in different directories that I didn't list.

Take a look here - http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5220 for A brief introduction to the Linux Directory Structure. It's the second part that will interest you.

[kpzani]

If you are using mandrake or Fedora / Redhat for that matter I would recommend sticking with packages that can be obtained as proper rpms. try www.rpmbone.net or google for rpms.

Mandrake and RH both put files in non standard places and very often you need to compile software with extra flags telling the compiler where these files are. This makes compiling from source difficult when you're learning.

So install samba off the mandrake install cds and try and configure it. When you've got that sussed then look at upgrading to the latest version.

cheers & good luck

Kris

[wikinger666]

I can understand irish...

I am an older Newbie and had many problems like that.E.g., did I try to compile several programs with several errors...and later it pointed out, that the FSB of 400 was just too high...F****ing SuSE included compiler crashed cause of this...Which Newbie has a chance to figure that out ?

Anyway...the SuSE RPM's for SAmba 3.04, in special, aren't a solution, too.
I tried to RPM them and lot's of conflicts with dependencies to samba 2.2.9 were the result. I think, that, IF there are published RPM's from a Distributor, they must!! work...and I fear, that such problems refer to other distris, too....

Lots of talk, nothing said...

Greets

Wik

[logan5]

The failed dependencies problem is why I sugested (a few post up) that Yum or apt4rpm be used. It will take care of all of that.