[cobalt-users] Upgrade to latest Samba

[Jim Dory <engineer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Hello,

I'm new to the list and new to Cobalts and new to Linux, so my task is 
daunting at times. But enjoyable.

I have a question that I hope hasn't been covered too much.. I did 
search the archives first and didn't find much. I searched the Cobalt 
knowledge base and ditto.. as well as the online forum.

I have a couple RaQ4r's. I am setting one up for file shares/backing up 
as well as intranet, the other for email/web. I've just got Samba 
working, but in my research see that the version on the RaQ (2.0.6) 
might have some problems with W2K Sp2 and XP. True or not, I'm thinking 
I should update. Apparently there's security fixes and whatnot. (I 
haven't been able to find testparm in my raQ, other than a few help 
files.) This is for a lan/wan of about 40 users.

So how do I go about it? Do I need to remove Samba first? I have done 
the ./configure- make- make install on other systems (other programs) so 
have beginning knowledge, but not much else. Does it matter where you 
unzip it, which directory.

In my research I did read that it might break PAM (on a Qube), and that 
person was also needing to do symlinks to config files because the new 
install place things in slightly different directories. I don't have 
experience doing that. Necessary?

Enough for now, thanks, Jim.