[Samba] Version?

[Bill Wilken]

Thanks for the note.  Even though I used apt-get remove to "extinguish"
Ubuntu's distro binary, and even though samba4 didn't show up in its
software manager, a check using the synaptic manager showed several pieces
and parts of the old binary still hanging around.


On 4/11/13 6:14 PM, "Marc Muehlfeld" <samba at marc-muehlfeld.de> wrote:

> Am 11.04.2013 23:30, schrieb Bill Wilken:
>> After removing all existing Samba folders, I downloaded,compiled, and
>> provisioned Samba 4.0.5 under Ubuntu 12.04 desktop.  But when I check for
>> version (samba ­V or samba ‹version), samba responds with ³Version
>> 4.0.0alpha18²  Am I missing something?
> 
> 
> I don't know Ubuntu. But I guess your distribution maybe was shipped
> with that old version. And when you compile samba, you installed it e.
> g. to /usr/local/samba, what isn't in the path by default (or you added
> it to the end of your path variable). So the binary shipped with your
> distribution is executed instead of the one in /usr/local/samba.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Marc
> 
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