This essay focuses on Linux distros such as Fedora. Pleasehttp://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages/samba

Linux distros such as Fedora

browsable list of available services on a network like Windows “Network Neighborhood” does. Samba comes with many other utilities. For example, testparm is a simple syntax checker for Samba’s smb.conf configuration file. smbpasswd can change a user’s SMB password which is use to protect the share file and print services. Please see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages/samba.7.html for those other utilities. Samba Build I install Ubuntu 13.04 on a Dell Precision WorkStation 380 machine with Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00 GHz and 2.0 GiB memory (quite a bit old machine). A manual static IPv4 ip address 131.230.133.237 is setup and the machine name is call hpndcl-ws8.cs.siu.edu.

Step 1: Check Samba 4 / OS

requirements First you need to execute the following command from a Terminal window to make sure all the related development libraries and programs are installed in the system. sudo apt-get install build-essential libacl1-dev libattr1-dev libblkid-dev libgnutls-dev libreadline-dev python-dev python-dnspython gdb pkg-config libpopt-dev libldap2-dev dnsutils libbsd-dev attr krb5- user docbook-xsl libcups2-dev docbook-xsl xsltproc inkscape libpam0g-dev Note: – The above apt-get install command in the Distribution Setup section of the webpage [4] works perfectly for Ubuntu (this command is supposed to be

working for Debian or Ubuntu). ).

One of the challenges was that the require package names did not exactly match between these two Linux distros. After I installed all the relate  libraries and programs that I could possibly think of by these suggestions, the Samba build process still failed during the linkage phase (the make command in step 3 below). The other big challenge is that it did not explicitly report which library it is missing. I spent couple of days trying to figure out which library went missing but to no avail. So I finally switched to the Ubuntu distro.