Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi,

Can anyone guide me in installing SAMBA 3.3.4 on AIX 5.3 server.
1. I have downloaded samba-3.3.4.tar.gz file
2. Unzipped and extracted the files, which created a directory samba-3.3.4 in the same location.
Under the directory samba-3.3.4, I got many directories but not sure how to proceed from here.

I got many smb.conf files under the extracted directory "samba-3.3.4"

./packaging/Debian/debian-sarge/smb.conf
./packaging/Debian/debian-woody/smb.conf
./packaging/Debian/debian-unstable/smb.conf
./packaging/RHEL-CTDB/setup/smb.conf
./packaging/RHEL/setup/smb.conf
./packaging/LSB/smb.conf
./packaging/SGI/smb.conf
./examples/dce-dfs/smb.conf
./examples/tridge/smb.conf

Need your assistance in fixing this.
Thanks
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Originally posted by: KentPerrier

I cannot say I am going to fix anything, but it looks like you downloaded a source tarball. You will need a C compiler to generate the object code to create the runnable application.

With some google searching you might be able to find a precompiled AIX binary distribution of samba out there.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I found right samba installation file "samba-3.0.26.0.bff". Installation completed successfully after which I executed these steps:

1. edit /etc/services, enter suitable lines in the file /etc/services,
such as the following:
netbios-ns 137/tcp # NETBIOS Name Service
netbios-ns 137/udp # NETBIOS Name Service
netbios-dgm 138/tcp # NETBIOS Datagram Service
netbios-dgm 138/udp # NETBIOS Datagram Service
netbios-ssn 139/tcp # NETBIOS Session Service
netbios-ssn 139/udp # NETBIOS Session Service
swat 901/tcp # swat service of samba

2. edit /etc/inetd.conf, enter suitable lines in the file
/etc/inetd.conf, such as the following:
netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd smbd
netbios-ns dgram udp wait root /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd nmbd
swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat swat

After editing the files, type refresh -s inetd.

But after this while verifying of SAMBA, nothing returned.

Use the smbclient command to test the installation:

/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient -L yourhostname

IF someone can guide me from here, it will be helpful

Thanks in advance
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

One more thing I forgot to mention is, there are no files under /usr/local/samba/bin directory.

Thanks
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Originally posted by: shargus

You might want to check out the AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/index.html

There's a precompiled Samba server and client in there.
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