[SOLVED] Re: [Samba] Compile from source FAILED - Mandrake 7.2

[David Rankin]

WOHOO - doing a dance..........

It works, the problem was the --with-configdir defaulting to ($libdir) which
sent samba looking for the smb.conf in /usr/lib instead of /etc. Damn, that
wasn't that hard was it??

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David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
Rankin * Bertin, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
(936) 715-9333
(936) 715-9339 fax
www.rankin-bertin.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Rankin" <drankin at cox-internet.com>
To: "samba" <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:23 PM
Subject: [Samba] Compile from source FAILED - Mandrake 7.2


> Mates,
>
>     The saga continues, but THANK GOD 'make revert' WORKS. Here is my
> problem. I am trying to compile 3.0.7 from source and install it on my
> Mandrake 7.2 box. The gcc compiler is 2.95.3. Here is what I have done:
>
> [stop samba]
>
> # ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-smbmount
> # make
> # make install
>
> # /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
>
> Here is what I get:
>
> [root at Nemesis david]# tail /var/log/messages
> Sep 23 21:01:28 Nemesis smb: smbd startup failed
> Sep 23 21:01:28 Nemesis smb: nmbd startup failed
>
> # make revert (pray with fingers crossed)
>
> Sep 23 21:01:59 Nemesis smb: smbd startup succeeded
> Sep 23 21:01:59 Nemesis smb: nmbd startup succeeded
>
> [root at Nemesis david]# smbclient -U% -L localhost
> added interface ip=192.168.7.14 bcast=192.168.7.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> Domain=[RB_LAW] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.9]
>
>         Sharename      Type      Comment
>         ---------      ----      -------
>         Rankin-Bertin  Disk      Rankin-Bertin PLLC
>         guillory       Disk      David Guillory
>         Bertin         Disk      Darren Bertin
>         Rankin         Disk      Rankin Law Firm PLLC
>         config         Disk      Admin Config Share
>         Applications   Disk      Windows Applications
>         printers       Printer   All the Damn Printing SOB's
>         IPC$           IPC       IPC Service (RB_LAW Samba Server 2.0.9)
>
>         Server               Comment
>         ---------            -------
>         BACKUP               This is the backup computer
>         DARREN               Darren's Dell
>         DAVIDG               Guillory Box
>         JANICE               computer
>         LIBRARY              Dell 2400 2.6 GHz
>         NEMESIS              RB_LAW Samba Server 2.0.9
>         RANKIN-XP
>
>         Workgroup            Master
>         ---------            -------
>         RB_LAW               NEMESIS
>
> (Big sigh of relief)
>
> Ok, so what went wrong?? ./configure went ok. make seemed to go ok. The
> following binaries were built:
>
> [root at Nemesis source]# ls bin/
> CP437.so*          expand_msdfs.so*  libsmbclient.so*  ntlm_auth*
> rpcclient*       smbcquotas*  smbspool*   tdbbackup*  winbindd*
> CP850.so*          extd_audit.so*    net*              pdbedit*
> shadow_copy.so*  smbd*        smbstatus*  tdbdump*
> audit.so*          fake_perms.so*    netatalk.so*      profiles*
> smbcacls*        smbmnt*      smbtree*    testparm*
> cap.so*            full_audit.so*    nmbd*             readonly.so*
> smbclient*       smbmount*    smbumount*  testprns*
> default_quota.so*  libsmbclient.a    nmblookup*        recycle.so*
> smbcontrol*      smbpasswd*   swat*       wbinfo*
>
> Where do I start looking to find out what failed?? Has anybody else got
this
> working??
>
>
> --
> David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
> Rankin * Bertin, PLLC
> 510 Ochiltree Street
> Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
> (936) 715-9333
> (936) 715-9339 fax
> www.rankin-bertin.com
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