upgrading samba4 gives samba3? or just confusion?

Christian Huldt christian at solvare.se
Fri Oct 7 05:58:45 MDT 2011


7 okt 2011 kl. 12.42 skrev Michael Wood:

> On 7 October 2011 10:22, Christian Huldt <christian at solvare.se> wrote:
>> I was to update a samba4 pdc, but end up with both samba and smbd in
>> /usr/local/samba/sbin each of which says
>> Samba 4.0.0alpha18, but when I start samba I get
>> Unknown parameter encountered: "server role"
> 
> Did you start "samba" or was it "smbd"?

I started "samba" (and verified with top that it was samba that was running).

> 
>> What is it that I do wrong?
>> 
>> ./configure.developer
>> make
>> make install
>> 
>> same results with 4alpha18 and yesterdays git
> 
> The build now installs both the Samba 3 and Samba 4 pieces.  smbd is
> the Samba 3 fileserver.
> 
> You will also notice, e.g., smbclient and smbclient3 binaries.
> 
> If you run "samba" instead of "smbd" you should get basically what you
> were expecting.

That I would understand, which is why I got so puzzled.


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