Installation

The rest of this presentation assumes a source installation.

Configuration

Configuration of samba is very simple. For the most part, a simple ./configure in the source directory of the distribution is all that is needed. A few configuration options may be useful, listed below:

• --prefix=path
  Install samba in path
• --with-ssl
  Configure samba to use the Secure Socket Layer to encrypt traffic between the client and server. This requires OpenSSL to be installed and you must use the --with-sslinc=path to point to the OpenSSL include directory. For information on using Samba with SSL, please see SSLeay.txt included in the Samba docs/textdocs directory.
• --with-smbwrapper
  Installs the smbwrapper program which allows Linux to access SMB shares as if they were local directories
• --with-syslog
  Configures samba to log via syslog rather than it's own logging facilities.
• --with-automount
  Support for using automount, useful if you wish to use Samba to share NFS or other filesystems that must be first mounted.
• --with-quotas
  Include support for disk quotas on shares

For a complete list of options, run ./configure --help

Once you have decided on a set of options, type:
./configure [options]
make
make install

If you are upgrading to a newer version of samba, the procedure is exactly the same. Samba will save old versions of files, and you may revert to the previous installation at any time by typing make revert.

If all goes well, Samba should be installed and ready to go.