317. Compiling samba 4.0.0 on Debian Testing/Wheezy

Not much to say about this one -- samba/SMB is only one among several linux solutions for sharing files, and probably the easiest one for sharing directories with windows computers. Samba has also been around for about as long as linux, so it has a long and interesting history.

New major versions are always exciting though. Information about Samba 4 can be found here: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4

I won't cover configuration here -- partly because I don't know much about it -- so see the link above. To get started you might want to look at this post though: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/300-briefly-sharing-folder-using-samba.html

I also wrote this a long time ago, but haven't checked it for accuracy:
http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/building-and-installing-samba-from.html

These instructions will build Samba 4.0.0 with LDAP and Cluster support.
Compilation:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libacl1-dev libattr1-dev libaio-dev libpam0g-dev kfreebsd-headers-9.0-2 libtalloc-dev python-talloc-dev libtevent-dev valgrind libsasl2-dev python2.7-dev libgnutls-dev xsltproc libctdb-dev libldap2-dev libcups2-dev python-ldb-dev ldb-tools libldb-dev checkinstall
mkdir ~/tmp 
cd ~/tmp
wget http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/samba-4.0.0.tar.gz
tar xvf samba-4.0.0.tar.gz
cd samba-4.0.0/
./configure --prefix=$HOME/.smb4
time make
sudo checkinstall
dpkg -i samba_4.0.0-1_amd64.deb

And you're done. 

Takes about 14 minutes to compile. When you run checkinstall and you're asked

Some of the files created by the installation are inside the home directory: /home

You probably don't want them to be included in the package.
Do you want me to list them?  [n]: n
Should I exclude them from the package? (Saying yes is a good idea)  [n]: n

Answer no, you DO want to include them. You're getting this warning because we set a --prefix and the files aren't going to the / structure like normal programs.

The samba daemon, smbd, is in ~/.smb4/sbin/ and the configuration files are in /etc/samba/.

---

Here's the structure of ~/.smb4:

~/.smb4/
|-- bin
|   |-- cifsdd
|   |-- dbwrap_tool
|   |-- eventlogadm
|   |-- gentest
|   |-- ldbadd
|   |-- ldbdel
|   |-- ldbedit
|   |-- ldbmodify
|   |-- ldbrename
|   |-- ldbsearch
|   |-- locktest
|   |-- masktest
|   |-- ndrdump
|   |-- net
|   |-- nmblookup
|   |-- nmblookup4
|   |-- ntlm_auth
|   |-- oLschema2ldif
|   |-- pdbedit
|   |-- pidl
|   |-- profiles
|   |-- regdiff
|   |-- regpatch
|   |-- regshell
|   |-- regtree
|   |-- rpcclient
|   |-- samba-tool
|   |-- sharesec
|   |-- smbcacls
|   |-- smbclient
|   |-- smbclient4
|   |-- smbcontrol
|   |-- smbcquotas
|   |-- smbget
|   |-- smbpasswd
|   |-- smbspool
|   |-- smbstatus
|   |-- smbta-util
|   |-- smbtorture
|   |-- smbtree
|   |-- testparm
|   `-- wbinfo
|-- etc
|-- include
|   |-- charset.h
|   |-- core
|   |-- credentials.h
|   |-- dcerpc.h
|   |-- dcerpc_server.h
|   |-- dlinklist.h
|   |-- domain_credentials.h
|   |-- gen_ndr
|   |-- gensec.h
|   |-- ldap-util.h
|   |-- ldap_errors.h
|   |-- ldap_message.h
|   |-- ldap_ndr.h
|   |-- ldb_wrap.h
|   |-- libsmbclient.h
|   |-- lookup_sid.h
|   |-- machine_sid.h
|   |-- ndr
|   |-- ndr.h
|   |-- netapi.h
|   |-- param.h
|   |-- passdb.h
|   |-- policy.h
|   |-- read_smb.h
|   |-- registry.h
|   |-- roles.h
|   |-- rpc_common.h
|   |-- samba
|   |-- samba_util.h
|   |-- share.h
|   |-- smb2.h
|   |-- smb2_constants.h
|   |-- smb2_create_blob.h
|   |-- smb2_signing.h
|   |-- smb_cli.h
|   |-- smb_cliraw.h
|   |-- smb_common.h
|   |-- smb_composite.h
|   |-- smb_constants.h
|   |-- smb_ldap.h
|   |-- smb_raw.h
|   |-- smb_raw_interfaces.h
|   |-- smb_raw_signing.h
|   |-- smb_raw_trans2.h
|   |-- smb_request.h
|   |-- smb_seal.h
|   |-- smb_share_modes.h
|   |-- smb_signing.h
|   |-- smb_unix_ext.h
|   |-- smb_util.h
|   |-- smbconf.h
|   |-- smbldap.h
|   |-- tdr.h
|   |-- torture.h
|   |-- tsocket.h
|   |-- tsocket_internal.h
|   |-- util
|   |-- util_ldb.h
|   `-- wbclient.h
|-- lib
|   |-- auth
|   |-- bind9
|   |-- gensec
|   |-- idmap
|   |-- ldb
|   |-- libdcerpc-atsvc.so -> libdcerpc-atsvc.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libdcerpc-atsvc.so.0 -> libdcerpc-atsvc.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libdcerpc-atsvc.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libdcerpc-binding.so -> libdcerpc-binding.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libdcerpc-binding.so.0 -> libdcerpc-binding.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libdcerpc-binding.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libdcerpc-samr.so -> libdcerpc-samr.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libdcerpc-samr.so.0 -> libdcerpc-samr.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libdcerpc-samr.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libdcerpc-server.so -> libdcerpc-server.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libdcerpc-server.so.0 -> libdcerpc-server.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libdcerpc-server.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libdcerpc.so -> libdcerpc.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libdcerpc.so.0 -> libdcerpc.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libdcerpc.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libgensec.so -> libgensec.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libgensec.so.0 -> libgensec.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libgensec.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libndr-krb5pac.so -> libndr-krb5pac.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libndr-krb5pac.so.0 -> libndr-krb5pac.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libndr-krb5pac.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libndr-nbt.so -> libndr-nbt.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libndr-nbt.so.0 -> libndr-nbt.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libndr-nbt.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libndr-standard.so -> libndr-standard.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libndr-standard.so.0 -> libndr-standard.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libndr-standard.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libndr.so -> libndr.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libndr.so.0 -> libndr.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libndr.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libnetapi.so -> libnetapi.so.0
|   |-- libnetapi.so.0
|   |-- libnss_winbind.so -> libnss_winbind.so.2
|   |-- libnss_winbind.so.2
|   |-- libnss_wins.so -> libnss_wins.so.2
|   |-- libnss_wins.so.2
|   |-- libpdb.so -> libpdb.so.0
|   |-- libpdb.so.0
|   |-- libregistry.so -> libregistry.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libregistry.so.0 -> libregistry.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libregistry.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsamba-credentials.so -> libsamba-credentials.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsamba-credentials.so.0 -> libsamba-credentials.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsamba-credentials.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsamba-hostconfig.so -> libsamba-hostconfig.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsamba-hostconfig.so.0 -> libsamba-hostconfig.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsamba-hostconfig.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsamba-policy.so -> libsamba-policy.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsamba-policy.so.0 -> libsamba-policy.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsamba-policy.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsamba-util.so -> libsamba-util.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsamba-util.so.0 -> libsamba-util.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsamba-util.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsamdb.so -> libsamdb.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsamdb.so.0 -> libsamdb.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsamdb.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsmbclient-raw.so -> libsmbclient-raw.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsmbclient-raw.so.0 -> libsmbclient-raw.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsmbclient-raw.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libsmbclient.so -> libsmbclient.so.0.2.0
|   |-- libsmbclient.so.0 -> libsmbclient.so.0.2.0
|   |-- libsmbclient.so.0.2.0
|   |-- libsmbconf.so -> libsmbconf.so.0
|   |-- libsmbconf.so.0
|   |-- libsmbldap.so -> libsmbldap.so.0
|   |-- libsmbldap.so.0
|   |-- libsmbsharemodes.so -> libsmbsharemodes.so.0
|   |-- libsmbsharemodes.so.0
|   |-- libtevent-util.so -> libtevent-util.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libtevent-util.so.0 -> libtevent-util.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libtevent-util.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libtorture.so -> libtorture.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libtorture.so.0 -> libtorture.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libtorture.so.0.0.1
|   |-- libwbclient.so -> libwbclient.so.0.11
|   |-- libwbclient.so.0 -> libwbclient.so.0.11
|   |-- libwbclient.so.0.11
|   |-- mit_samba.so
|   |-- nss_info
|   |-- pkgconfig
|   |-- private
|   |-- process_model
|   |-- python2.7
|   |-- security
|   |-- service
|   |-- vfs
|   `-- winbind_krb5_locator.so
|-- private
|-- sbin
|   |-- nmbd
|   |-- samba
|   |-- samba_dnsupdate
|   |-- samba_kcc
|   |-- samba_spnupdate
|   |-- samba_upgradedns
|   |-- samba_upgradeprovision
|   |-- smbd
|   |-- swat
|   `-- winbindd
|-- share
|   |-- codepages
|   |-- man
|   |-- perl5
|   |-- setup
|   `-- swat
`-- var
    |-- cache
    |-- lib
    |-- lock
    |-- locks
    `-- run