February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
23h 11m
English
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Configuring Samba
Samba automatically configures itself prior to compilation. This reduces the likelihood of a machine-specific problem, but you might end up wishing for an option after Samba has been installed.
The source distribution of Samba 2.2 and above
doesn’t initially have a
makefile. Instead, one is
generated through a
GNU configure
script, which is located in the samba-2.2.x
/source/ directory. The configure
script takes care of the machine-specific issues of building Samba.
Note
Before running the configure script, it is
important that you become the root user on the system. Otherwise, you
might get a warning such as:
configure: warning: running as non-root will disable some tests
You don’t want any test to be disabled when the Samba makefile is being created; it would leave the potential for errors down the road when compiling or running Samba on your system.
When the configure script is run, it prints out
messages telling what it is doing, and error messages might be mixed
in. To make sure you see those very important error messages, we
suggest you run configure with its standard
output passed through some filter to capture the output and keep it
from scrolling out of sight. One method is using the
more command:
# ./configure | moreWe will show you another in a moment.
Although you can run configure as previously
with no options, you might want to add support for extra features by
passing options on the command line. For example:
# ./configure --with-winbindwill configure ...
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