[Samba] Samba 3.0.24 on AIX

[William Jojo]

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:31:16 -0500
>From: "Hillel Seltzer" <hseltzer at larich.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 3.0.24 on AIX  
>To: samba at lists.samba.org
>
>That was it?  Cool, it works now!  Thanks for fixing it.
>See previous posts on Swat not working with root on AIX.
>
>There is still one issue with the pware samba distribution.
>To use the samba programs and utilities, the library files
>sitting in /opt/pware/lib are required to be in the LIBPATH
>ahead of any directories that might have libraries with the
>same names.  However, setting the LIBPATH environment
>variable as such messes with just about everything else
>outside of samba (or, more accurately, outside of pware
>provided packages).
>

If you check the README, there should be a section that says you should "unset LIBPATH" prior to running the software and this will force the software to use the libraries and paths embedded in the executable.

>For running smbd, nmbd, winbindd, and swat, I wrote a
>short script in /opt/pware/sbin that just sets PATH and
>LIBPATH evironment variables and then runs the corresponding
>program with all the desired arguments.  I then set this
>script as the startup for nmbd and smbd in the AIX system
>resource controller and for swat in inetd.conf.  This gets
>around the environment problem of having to start or restart
>the daemon processes or swat.  However, any user on an AIX
>terminal window who sets the environment to use the samba
>command line utilities cannot do anything else in that terminal window.
>

Agreed. Your script should simply "unset LIBPATH" and launch the software with fully qualified paths. Then you should not need to alter /etc/profile, /etc/environment or any other file.

:-)

Cheers,

Bill


>---Hillel
>
>On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:07:26 -0400 (EDT), William Jojo wrote
>>
>> Yeah, that's my bad. Please go to
>>
>> ftp://ftp.hvcc.edu/pub/pware/aix52
>>
>> And download 3.0.24 from there. I put the PAM version on the Samba
>> site by mistake. I'll get a new one to Jerry today to move to the
>> download site.
>>
>> Apologies for the screw up...
>> 
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