Upgrading older version of samba in order to setup PDC
Gerald Carter
cartegw at Eng.Auburn.EDU
Sat Oct 9 20:52:50 GMT 1999
James Osbourn wrote:
>
> I am currently running version 1.9.18p10 of samba on
> a solaris machine. I have setup encryted passwords
> and shares and everything is working. I would now like
> to set up the samba box to be the PDC for the pc's.
>
> I have been reading the documentation and the cvs
> update seems to be the way to go. However, I was
> not the person responsible for installing Samba. The
> person who installed Samba installed it into the /opt
> directory rather than the /local directory as is
> the default today. There also were modifications made
> to the source code before being compiled and installed.
>
> What I would like to know is whether it is possible
> to download the latest samba code and update the code
> I have in /opt. Will this effect and precompile
> modification that were made to the source code. If this
> is not possible it was suggested that I re-install
> Samba using the default location. Making any modifications
> to the source code again, then moving any config data
> to the new location. I would rather go with
> the former option if it is feasible.
James,
You really don't want to merge the new code into 1.9.18p10.
There were a lot of changes. better to get a clean copy of
code and add you changes.
Cheers,
jerry
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Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter
Engineering Network Services Auburn University
jerry at eng.auburn.edu http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw
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