I have been a cold hearted Windows user for a looong time (Too long). Since my introduction to Linux - I haven't looked back. Linux is great, it does everything I need it to do and more. This forum is an excellent source of information and ideas to share amongst one another. I am really wrapped.
If I have a problem, sure enough someone else has experienced this before me - and I must say all the answers are here, (Seek and ye shall find).

Now I want to keep the rhythm going, but I do have a Q.

Why is it that after upgrading Samba to the latest version, it displays the previous one?? using smbstatus?
Is there a fix/patch or maybe its supposed to do this...
Anyone????

Signed
A converted Windows user.

it sounds like you may now have two installs, and possibly the old one is in your path ahead of the new one.

since samba may create folders like samba-2.2.1a and samba-2.2.5 it would not be overwriting the files.

The best thing would be to uninstall and then install the new one.



try locate samba

it may be as simple as the old one having a link in bin and the new one not

[david@www david]$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/david/bin


with a path like this if the old one is in or has a link in /bin and the new one in /usr/bin.... well you see what I mean

Wow - that was a quick reply.
Thanks David, will give it a go...

Linux just doesnt stop surprising me, I can't believe the features packed into such a distribution..

unreal when you open an xterm and hit the tab key a couple of times and see how many commands are actually there isn't it?

Welcome to LQ m8 :-)