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Samba 3.3 or later on Slackware 12 - what's the best way?

I'm trying to upgrade the Samba server on a Slackware 12 box to serve as PDC for Windows 7 32bit machines (it now has a 3.0.3 and does the job for Win XP machines, but 7 refuses to join the domain - I'm posting this after having tried a few dozen hacks on the windows registry).

I'm a newbie on Slackware (I usually dwell in Ubuntu) so I may be going about this the wrong way but this is what I've done so far:

The Samba wiki has a couple of hacks for the registry and also seems to suggest a version later than 3.3 (though not in so many words) http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7

Having scoured the net for later Samba packages/binaries for Slackware 12 and gotten precisely nowhere, I decided that maybe I could compile the blessed thing. But I keep on getting compiler errors.

BTW, I'm using this SlackBuild script http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/slackwar...mba.SlackBuild

Is there a way to make this happen without upgrading the base system? it has so many finely tuned things running that I prefer not to mess with the rest of the setup.]

What errors are you getting specifically?

I think that 3.4.x is recommended specifically for Windows Vista/7 and Win2k8, and later. You haven't mentioned though what compiler errors you are getting. With a bit of luck, you should be able to tweak the Slackware 12 script ( ie. the one provided with the dist ).

Thanks for replying guys, really appreciated

OK, so I'm trying to build 3.4.4 (that's the version the SlackBuild script I mentioned above is targeting).

The error I get after running it - it seems to be decompressing the files properly - then it goes:

Code:

checking for gcc... gcc

checking for C compiler default output file name...

configure: error: in `/tmp/samba-3.4.4/source3':

configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

See `config.log' for more details.

The actual config.log in /tmp/samba-3.4.4/source3/ says

Code:

configure:3456: checking for C compiler default output file name

configure:3478: gcc -O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686   conftest.c  >&5

/usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.1.2/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld:

 crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

configure:3482: $? = 1

configure:3520: result:

configure: failed program was:

| /* confdefs.h.  */

| #define PACKAGE_NAME "Samba"

| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "samba"

| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "3"

| #define PACKAGE_STRING "Samba 3"

| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "samba-technical@samba.org"

| #define CONFIG_H_IS_FROM_SAMBA 1

| /* end confdefs.h.  */

|

| int

| main ()

| {

|

|   ;

|   return 0;

| }

configure:3526: error: in `/tmp/samba-3.4.4/source3':

configure:3529: error: C compiler cannot create executables

See `config.log' for more details.

Sorry for not posting the details earlier - I guess I was hoping someone would say: "No, you are doing it all wrong: here is a repository of pre-compiled tgz Samba versions."

Looks to me like you're missing a system library - crt1.o should be in package glibc ... make sure you've got this file on your system ( normally in /usr/lib ). If not then you may have to reinstall your glibc package.