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<H2><A NAME="s4">4. Installation</A></H2>
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<P>First, in order to use Samba your machines must be on a single ethernet LAN segment using the TCP/IP protocol. Samba will not work using other network protocols. This is generally easy since Linux and Windows 95/98/NT ship with TCP/IP support. However, if you are using Windows 3.X machines TCP/IP support will need to be added. One of the most common questions that I get asked is why Samba "isn't working" when Windows machines are not using TCP/IP.
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<P>In order to setup Windows 95/98 to use TCP/IP, select Control Panel | Network, then add and configure Microsoft TCP/IP. Under Windows NT, select Control Panel | Network | Protocols.
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<P>To get the latest source version of Samba, go to this URL and pick the closest mirror site to you:
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<A HREF="ftp://ftp.samba.org/">ftp://ftp.samba.org/</A>.
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<P>In most cases, though, your Linux distribution will already come with an installable package containing a recent version of Samba.
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<P>The following two daemons are required for the Samba package. They are typically installed in /usr/sbin and run either on boot from the systems startup scripts or from inetd. Example scripts are shown in
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<A HREF="SMB-HOWTO-5.html#sec-daemons">Running the Daemons</A>.
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smbd (The SMB daemon)
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nmbd (Provides NetBIOS nameserver support to clients)
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<P>Please note that the name service provided by the nmbd daemon is different from the name service provided by the Domain Name Service (DNS). NetBIOS name service is a 'Windows-style' name service used for SMB. In other words, having DNS name service tells you nothing about the state of the ability for Samba to resolve host names.
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<P>Typically, the following Samba binaries are installed in /usr/bin or /usr/local/samba/bin, although the location is optional.
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<PRE>
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smbclient (An SMB client for UNIX machines)
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smbprint (A script to print to a printer on an SMB host)
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smbprint.sysv (As above, but for SVR4 UNIX machines)
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smbstatus (Lists the cuurent SMB connections for the local host)
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smbrun (A 'glue' script to facilitate runnning applciations
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on SMB hosts)
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</PRE>
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<P>The binaries for smbfs file system support are discussed later in this document.
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<P>Additionally, a script called 'print' is included with this HOWTO, which serves as a useful front end to the smbprint script.
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<P>The Samba package is simple to install. Simply retrieve the source from the location mentioned above, and read the file README in the distribution. There is also a file called docs/INSTALL.txt in the distribution that provides a simple step-by-step set of instructions.
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<P>Following installation, place the daemons in /usr/sbin and the binaries in /usr/bin. Install the man pages in /usr/local/man.
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<P>When you made the Samba package, you would have specified in the Makefile the location for the configuration file, smb.conf. This is generally in /etc, but you can put it anywhere you like. For these directions, we will presume that you specified the location of the configuration file as /etc/smb.conf, the log file location as log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m and the lock directory as lock directory = /var/lock/samba.
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<P>Install the configuration file, smb.conf. Go to the directory where Samba was built. Look in the subdirectory examples/simple and read the file README. Copy the file smb.conf found in that directory to /etc. BE CAREFUL! If you have a Linux distribution that already has Samba installed, you may already have a Samba configuration file in /etc. You should probably start with that one.
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<P>If you don't want to have your configuration file in /etc, put it wherever you want to, then put a symlink in /etc:
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ln -s /path/to/smb.conf /etc/smb.conf
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