[Samba] Need installation help of SAMBA on UNIX Sun- Solaris version 8 platform

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 Jay.S.Shah at gsk.com wrote:

> Dear Mr. Andrew Tridgell,
> 
> 
> I am new to samba.  I understood that it allows you to share the files 
> from Microsoft windows env. and UNIX environment.
> 
> I need to install the software on my UNIX machine. 
> 
> Do I need the license?

Samba is released un the GNU General Public License v2.
See the file "COPYING" in the root of the source distribution you 
downloaded.


>  samba-latest.tar.gz I copied to UNIX env. and gunzip and tar to extract
> all the files.  Is this correct step?

Yes.  See the docs/htmldocs/UNIX_INSTALL.html instructions
and the O'Reilly Samba book included in docs/htmldocs/using_samba




cheers, jerry
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