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@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ aimed at production use of Samba4.
Step 1: download Samba4
-----------------------
+If you have downloaded the Samba4 code via a tarball released from the
+samba.org website, Step 1 has already been completed for you. For testing
+with the version released in the tarball, you may continue on to Step 2. Note
+that the references below to the top-level directory named "samba4" will
+instead be based on the name of the tarball downloaded (e.g.
+"samba-4.0.0alpha3" for the tarball samba-4.0.0alpha3.tar.gz).
+
There are 2 methods of doing this:
method 1: "rsync -avz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/samba_4_0_test/ samba4"
@@ -50,10 +57,7 @@ Run this::
$ cd samba4/source
$ ./configure
- $ make proto all
-
-If you have gcc 3.4 or newer, then substitute "pch" for "proto" to
-greatly speed up the compile process (about 5x faster).
+ $ make
Step 3: install Samba4
----------------------
@@ -120,14 +124,10 @@ in your $PATH. Make sure you run the right version!
Step 7: testing Samba4
----------------------
-try these commands::
+try this command::
$ smbclient //localhost/test -Uadministrator%SOMEPASSWORD
-or::
-
- $ ./script/tests/test_posix.sh //localhost/test administrator SOMEPASSWORD
-
NOTE about filesystem support
-----------------------------