Re: How to obtain Samba?

Ron Giuntini wrote:
On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:38:24 -0500, Moe Trin wrote:

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<pan.2006.09.23.22.47.06.447636@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ron Giuntini wrote:

I don't find Samba on my system. If it is on the disks, I don't know how
to find it... I need to install the config-Samba package, but I can't
locate it in any directory.
Well, can we start by asking which distribution you are using? Sure, you
are posting to linux.redhat, but is this one of the old Red Hat versions?
Fedora? Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Which version? From the list of
packages in Fedora Core 5, I see

-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 16349200 Mar 06 20:38 samba-3.0.21b-2.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 4069890 Mar 06 20:38 samba-client-3.0.21b-2.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 2 ftp ftp 8352162 Mar 06 20:38 samba-common-3.0.21b-2.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 7579482 Mar 06 20:38 samba-swat-3.0.21b-2.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 3 ftp ftp 251501 Mar 06 22:44
system-config-samba-1.2.34-1.noarch.rpm

but the samba packages have been updated twice since out-of-box.

16511817 Jul 15 00:17 samba-3.0.23-1.fc5.i386.rpm
16512644 Jul 26 18:15 samba-3.0.23a-1.fc5.1.i386.rpm
4414607 Jul 15 00:17 samba-client-3.0.23-1.fc5.i386.rpm
4399740 Jul 26 18:15 samba-client-3.0.23a-1.fc5.1.i386.rpm
8922803 Jul 15 00:17 samba-common-3.0.23-1.fc5.i386.rpm
8907492 Jul 26 18:15 samba-common-3.0.23a-1.fc5.1.i386.rpm
7622819 Jul 15 00:17 samba-swat-3.0.23-1.fc5.i386.rpm
7621067 Jul 26 18:15 samba-swat-3.0.23a-1.fc5.1.i386.rpm

(Linux user ten days...I know ..I know...but I am trying...This is my
second system up and running on Linux...that's two less windows
systems in
the world...)
Glad to hear it - keep up the good work.

Old guy
I am using RedHat Release 9....Does that help? I installed the Desktop
configuration, plus the documentation. I did not get to see what was on
thdisks 4,5 or 6, since when I inserted those disks, a log in console
would appear...so I am not sure how to get those files onto the hard
drive, or even if I need them...I did download the following file, and it
is residing in the directory /home/ron/samba-3.0.22-1.i386.rpm

Is this useful?
Thank you very much..
Ron

Boy will that open a can of worms. RHL 9 is pretty old, others will tell you how old. The RedHat Linux distro was split into Fedora Core (Free) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (For Fee). Fedora Core is now at version 5. So there have been 5 versions since RHL 9. FC6 is going to be released next month. Since I tossed my RHL 9 CDs a few weeks ago and don't have it running, I don't have the list of what is where on the disks. (Disks 4 thru 6 are source CDs.)

If you really want to stay with RHL 9, just copy the /RedHat/RPMS/*samba* files to /tmp and issue, as root,

rpm -Uvh /tmp/*samba*rpm

I think, though cannot remember for sure, that the Add/Remove Software application will ask for the CDs it needs if you tell it to install samba.

Though you really should move to a more current version, like FC5, centOS 4.4, scientific 4.3, white box 4.1, RHEL 4.4, or other modern distro. (These are all Red Hat variants, though not all the Red Hat variants.)

Fedora Core 5 is on 5 CDs or 1 DVD. These are all software disks, not source disks.

Ken
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