[Samba] Upgrade from 3.0.4 to 3.4.5 gotchas?

[Joe]

On 1/25/2010 4:47 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Joe<joe at freakyacres.com>  wrote:
>> On 1/25/2010 1:53 PM, John Drescher wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Joe<joe at freakyacres.com>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm about to install 3.4.5 over 3.0.4 on an old FreeBSD 5.2.1 server from
>>>> source.  The server is backed up to tape.
>>>>
>>>> Could I make life easier by backing up some files by hand to another
>>>> directory?
>>>>
>>>> In theory should "make install" be all I have to do?  (yes I ran
>>>> configure
>>>> and make)
>>>>
>>>> Will the old smb.conf need modified?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes definitely. You are going ahead 6 years of development.
>>>
>>> Normally you are supposed to take a look at the change logs between
>>> versions to determine what parameters have been changed or removed but
>>> that would be very painful for that type of move.
>>>
>>> I would run
>>>
>>> testparm
>>>
>>> before starting samba and fix any thing it complains about.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>
>> I didn't make install yet but ran testparm from the compile directory.
>>
>> It complains...
>>
>> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libtalloc.so.1" not found
>>
>> So I expect samba may have trouble starting also.  Any tips?
>
>
> libtalloc.so.1 is part of samba
>
> John
>

So is there any way to run the new version of testparm before the
actual installation?