The source distribution of Samba 2.0 and above doesn't initially have a makefile. Instead, one is generated through a GNU
configure script, which is located in the
samba-2.0.x /source/ directory. The
configure script, which must be run as root, takes care of the machine-specific issues of building Samba. However, you still may want to decide on some global options. Global options can be set by passing options on the command-line:
# ./configure --with-ssl
For example, this will configure the Samba makefile with support for the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption protocol. If you would like a complete list of options, type the following:
# ./configure --help
Each of these options enable or disable various features. You typically enable a feature by specifying the
--with-
feature
option, which will cause the feature to be compiled and installed. Likewise, if you specify a
--without-
feature
option, the feature will be disabled. As of Samba 2.0.5, each of the following features is disabled by default:
-
--with-smbwrapper
-
Include SMB wrapper support, which allows executables on the Unix side to access SMB/CIFS filesystems as if they were regular Unix filesystems. We recommend using this option. However, at this time this book went to press, there were several incompatibilities between the
smbwrapper package and the GNU
libc version 2.1, and it would not compile on Red Hat 6.0. Look for more information on these incompatibilities on the Samba home page.
-
--with-afs
-
Include support of the Andrew Filesystem from Carnegie Mellon University. If you're going to serve AFS files via Samba, we recommend compiling Samba once first without enabling this feature to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Once that version is working smoothly, recompile Samba with this feature enabled and compare any errors you might receive against the previous setup.
-
--with-dfs
-
Include support for DFS, a later version of AFS, used by OSF/1 (Digital Unix). Note that this is
not the same as Microsoft DFS, which is an entirely different filesystem. Again, we recommend compiling Samba once first without this feature to ensure that everything runs smoothly, then recompile with this feature to compare any errors against the previous setup.
-
--with-krb4
=
base-directory
-
Include support for Kerberos version 4.0, explicitly specifying the base directory of the distribution. Kerberos is a network security protocol from MIT that uses private key cryptography to provide strong security between nodes. Incidentally, Microsoft has announced that Kerberos 5.0 will be the standard authentication mechanism for Microsoft Windows 2000 (NT 5.0). However, the Kerberos 5.0 authentication mechanisms are quite different from the Kerberos 4.0 security mechanisms. If you have Kerberos version 4 on your system, the Samba team recommends that you upgrade and use the
--with-krb5
option (see the next item). You can find more information on Kerberos at
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www.
-
--with-krb5
=
base-directory
-
Include support for Kerberos version 5.0, explicitly specifying the base directory of the distribution. Microsoft has announced that Kerberos 5.0 will be the standard authentication mechanism for Microsoft Windows 2000 (NT 5.0). However, there is no guarantee that Microsoft will not extend Kerberos for their own needs in the future. Currently, Samba's Kerberos support only uses a plaintext password interface and not an encrypted one. You can find more information on Kerberos at its home page:
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www.
-
--with-automount
-
Include support for automounter, a feature often used on sites that offer NFS.
-
--with-smbmount
-
Include
smbmount support, which is for Linux only. This feature wasn't being maintained at the time the book was written, so the Samba team made it an optional feature and provided
smbwrapper instead. The
smbwrapper feature works on more Unix platforms than
smbmount, so you'll usually want to use
--with-smbwrapper
instead of this option.
-
--with-pam
-
Include support for pluggable authentication modules (PAM), an authentication feature common in the Linux operating system.
-
--with-ldap
-
Include support for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). A future version of LDAP will be used in the Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) operating system; this Samba support is experimental. LDAP is a flexible client-server directory protocol that can carry information such as certificates and group memberships.[]
-
--with-nis
-
Include support for getting password-file information from NIS (network yellow pages).
-
--with-nisplus
-
Include support for obtaining password-file information from NIS+, the successor to NIS.
-
--with-ssl
-
Include experimental support for the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which is used to provide encrypted connections from client to server. Appendix A,
Configuring Samba with SSL, describes setting up Samba with SSL support.
-
--with-nisplus-home
-
Include support for locating which server contains a particular user's home directory and telling the client to connect to it. Requires
--with-nis
and, usually,
--with-automounter
.
-
--with-mmap
-
Include experimental memory mapping code. This is not required for fast locking, which already uses mmap or System V shared memory.
-
--with-syslog
-
Include support for using the SYSLOG utility for logging information generated from the Samba server. There are a couple of Samba configuration options that you can use to enable SYSLOG support; Chapter 4,
Disk Shares , discusses these options.
-
--with-netatalk
-
Include experimental support for interoperating with the (Macintosh) Netatalk file server.
-
--with-quotas
-
Include disk-quota support.
Because each of these options is disabled by default, none of these features are essential to Samba. However, you may want to come back and build a modified version of Samba if you discover that you need one at a later time.
In addition,
Table 2.1 shows some other parameters that you can give the
configure script if you wish to store parts of the Samba distribution in different places, perhaps to make use of multiple disks or partitions. Note that the defaults sometimes refer to a prefix specified earlier in the table.
Table 2.1: Additional Configure Options
Option |
Meaning |
Default |
--prefix =
directory |
Install architecture-independent files at the base directory specified. |
/usr/local/samba |
--eprefix =
directory |
Install architecture-dependent files at the base directory specified. |
/usr/local/samba |
--bindir =
directory |
Install user executables in the directory specified. |
eprefix
/bin |
--sbindir =
directory |
Install administrator executables in the directory specified. |
eprefix
/bin |
--libexecdir =
directory |
Install program executables in the directory specified. |
eprefix
/libexec |
--datadir =
directory |
Install read-only architecture independent data in the directory specified. |
prefix
/share |
--libdir =
directory |
Install program libraries in the directory specified. |
eprefix
/lib |
--includedir =
directory |
Install package include files in the directory specified. |
prefix
/include |
--infodir =
directory |
Install additional information files in the directory specified. |
prefix
/info |
--mandir =
directory |
Install manual pages in the directory specified. |
prefix
/man |
Again, before running the
configure script, it is important that you are the root user on the system. Otherwise, you may get a warning such as:
configure: warning: running as non-root will disable some tests
You don't want any test to be disabled when the Samba makefile is being created; this leaves the potential for errors down the road when compiling or running Samba on your system.
Here is a sample execution of the
configure script, which creates a Samba 2.0.4 makefile for the Linux platform. Note that you must run the configure script in the
source directory, and that several lines from the middle of the excerpt have been omitted:
# cd samba-2.0.4b/source/
# ./configure | tee mylog
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
...(content omitted)...
checking configure summary
configure OK
creating ./config.status
creating include/stamp-h
creating Makefile
creating include/config.h
In general, any message from
configure that doesn't begin with the words
checking
or
creating
is an error; it often helps to redirect the output of the configure script to a file so you can quickly search for errors, as we did with the
tee
command above. If there was an error during configuration, more detailed information about it can be found in the
config.log file, which is written to the local directory by the
configure script.
If the configuration works, you'll see a
checking
configure
summary
message followed by a
configure
OK
message and four or five file creation messages. So far, so good.... Next step: compiling.