Re: Newbie question on RPMs

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, DeWayne Thomas wrote:

> Hello,
> 	I'm a relative new-comer to Linux so please bear with me.  I'm
> setting a Linux server up on my network and I want to implement Samba.
> However, I need ADS support, so I wanted to use Samba3.  My server is
> running SuSE Linux and there is, as of yet, no Samba RPM in the distribution
> list.  Would I be able to use the RedHat RPMs?  I've tried a build from the
> source, but am getting errors that I'm not yet at an experience level to
> debug.

You can not use Red Hat RPMs for Samba on SuSE. Sorry.

You can download the SuSE SRPM I build from:

	http://samba.org/~jht/HOWTO/

When you download it:

	rpm --rebuild samba3-3.0.1-312.src.rpm

will build the binary packages. They will end up in
/usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386


- John T.
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