Showing posts with label samba 3.6.3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label samba 3.6.3. Show all posts

05 March 2012

93. Building and installing samba from source

Here's how to compile and get started with SAMBA, which may come in handy if you need to set up a mixed environment.


Compiling

sudo apt-get install build-essential


wget http://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/samba-latest.tar.gz
tar -xvf samba-latest.tar.gz 
cd samba-3.6.3/
cd source3
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall

You may want to look through the checkinstall settings:
*****************************************
**** Debian package creation selected ***
*****************************************
This package will be built according to these values:
0 -  Maintainer: [ root@barebone ]
1 -  Summary: [ samba 3.6.3 ]
2 -  Name:    [ samba ]
3 -  Version: [ 3.6.3 ]
4 -  Release: [ 1 ]
5 -  License: [ GPL ]
6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]
7 -  Architecture: [ amd64 ]
8 -  Source location: [ source3 ]
9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]
10 - Requires: [  ]
11 - Provides: [ source3 ]
12 - Conflicts: [  ]
13 - Replaces: [  ]
Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue:
Once the package is installed you need to put symlinks in your /usr/lib to the installed samba libs:
sudo ln -s /usr/local/samba/lib/libtalloc.so.2 /usr/lib/libtalloc.so.2
 sudo ln -s /usr/local/samba/lib/libtdb.so.1 /usr/lib/libtdb.so.1



Finally, create smb.conf in /etc/samba/ and make samba find it using a symlink
sudo mkdir /etc/samba
sudo touch /etc/samba/smb.conf
sudo ln -s /etc/samba/smb.conf /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf

Done. Sort of. You need to configure samba using smb.conf...a minimal configuration file can be found at the end of the post.



Errors:
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: in `/home/verahill/tmp/samba-3.6.3/source3':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

Solution:
sudo apt-get install build-essential



error:
-bash: smbclient: command not found
solution:
 put /usr/local/samba/bin in PATH
export $PATH=PATH:/usr/local/samba/bin


error:
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient: error while loading shared libraries: libtalloc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
solution:
sudo ln -s /usr/local/samba/lib/libtalloc.so.2 /usr/lib/libtalloc.so.2


error:
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient: error while loading shared libraries: libtdb.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
solution:
 sudo ln -s /usr/local/samba/lib/libtdb.so.1 /usr/lib/libtdb.so.1


Error:
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient: error while loading shared libraries: libwbclient.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Solution:
 sudo ln -s /usr/local/samba/lib/libwbclient.so.0 /usr/lib/libwbclient.so.0


error:
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient: Can't load /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf - run testparm to debug it
solution:
because I know where debian normally puts the smb.conf --
sudo mkdir /etc/samba
sudo touch /etc/samba/smb.conf
sudo ln -s /etc/samba/smb.conf /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf



Configuration:
Following https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/install.html#id2551954

Minimal /etc/samba/smb.conf:
[global]
workgroup = WKG
netbios name = MYNAME
[share1]
path = /tmp
Also, open up the relevant ports in your firewall:
Iptables
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 137 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 138 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 139 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 445 -j ACCEPT