[ Thanks to Sensei
for this link. ]
“As of this writing, the latest stable version of Samba is
2.0.3. You will need the source distribution, it is called
samba-2.0.3.tar.gz, grab it from the Samba homepage
(http://www.samba.org)….”
“First thing to do is extract the source distribution. Assuming
you’ve downloaded it to /tmp, do this (you don’t need to be root
yet):
$ tar -zxvf samba-2.0.3.tar.gz
If you didn’t get any error messages, you should have the extracted
files in a directory called samba-2.0.3. The Samba source
distribution comes with a bunch of packaging scripts. Of particular
interest is the one that builds an RPM for us.”
“Let’s put blind-faith into this script and run it (now you have
to be root)…”
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