Configure Samba

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# 31.2. Configure Samba

Move into the new Samba directory, and move into its `source` subdirectory.

1. Edit the `smbsh.in` file, vi `smbwrapper/smbsh.in` and change the line:

                 SMBW_LIBDIR=${SMBW_LIBDIR-@builddir@/smbwrapper}

   To read:

                 SMBW_LIBDIR=${SMBW_LIBDIR-/usr/bin}

   This change will relocate the `lib` directory of Samba to be under the `/usr/bin` directory.

2. Edit the `Makefile.in` file, vi `Makefile.in` and change the line:

   1.                 SBINDIR  =  @bindir@

      To read:

                      SBINDIR  =  @sbindir@

   2.                 VARDIR  =  @localstadir@

      To read:

                      VARDIR  =  /var/log/samba

      This will specify that our `sbin` directory for the Samba binaries files will be located in the `/usr/sbin` directory, and that the `/var` directory for Samba log files will be under the `/var/log/samba` subdirectory.

3. Edit the `convert_smbpasswd` file, vi `script/convert_smbpasswd` and change the line:

                 nawk 'BEGIN {FS=":"}

   To:

                 gawk 'BEGIN {FS=":"}

   This will specify to use the GNU Linux version of the awk text processing utility instated of the Bell Labs research version of awk program for the `smbpasswd` file.

4. Edit the `smbmount.c` file, vi `client/smbmount.c` and change the lines:

                 static void close_our_files(int client_fd)
                 {
                 int i;
                 for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
                 if (i == client_fd) continue;
                 close(i);
                 }

   To read:

                 static void close_our_files(int client_fd)
                 {
                 struct rlimit limits;
                 int i;

                 getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE,&limits);
                 for (i = 0; i < limits.rlim_max; i++) {
                 if (i == client_fd) continue;
                 close(i);
                 }

   This step will make the `smbmount.c` file compatible with Red Hat's glibc 2.1 library.

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