Not happy campers

[Dave Walton]

On 4 Mar 99, at 4:14, Stephen L Arnold wrote:

> When the world was young, "Dave Walton" <walton at emusic.com> carved 
> some runes like this:  
> 
> [bigger snip]
> > But here's another twist -- I now have three machines
> > running Samba:
> > 
> > v1.9.18 on FreeBSD 2.2.6 -> Win95 works.
> > v2.0.2 (upgraded from v1.9.18) on FreeBSD 2.2.6 -> Win95 broken.
> > v2.0.2 (fresh install) on FreeBSD 3.0 -> Win95 works.
> 
> How did you upgrade the second machine?  Did you install the binary 
> package, or compile from source?  One or more 
> versions/distributions of certain host platforms have peculiar 
> quirks, for example, one of the later distributions of SuSe was 
> broken wrt the samba binary.  Also, certain versions of native C 
> compilers (Sun, AI/X), even gcc in some cases, are hosed up, as 
> well as some shared libs on some platforms.

I had originally installed from the FreeBSD ports collection.  I did a 
pkg_delete to uninstall, then installed the new version from the 
ports collection.  The installation script downloads the source 
distribution, applies a few patches (default directory adjustments), 
compiles and installs.

Since it doesn't make sense that doing an upgrade would cause 
this problem, I can only conclude that something changed in 2.0.x 
so that it doesn't work quite right with FreeBSD 2.2.x.  We'll see 
what happens in a couple of weeks when I build a 3.1 box to 
replace this misbehaving one...

> Just my $0.05 worth (you always get a little extra when you ask 
> me...)

What a bargain!

Dave


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