no more HPUX Samba packaging ?

[Jeroen_D]

Hi,

I've noticed that there is no samba-packaging directory for HPUX anymore.
Normally when you download the latest .tar.gz from www.samba.org, you will find a HPUX directory under the packaging directory. This allows you to create a depot-file which is easy to install. However with Rev.2.2.0 and 2.2.1a I can't find the HPUX directory anymore. I do find a lot of Linux and a Solaris directory.

Now I have to do a make install myself. I also have to create some startup files, etc...

It would be easier if there were a packaging directory. Anyone got info about this ?
Noone from HP interested in providing this ?

How do you guys install Samba ? The ./configure, make, make install way or did you find another place to download the HPUX packages ?

Any info would be greatly appreciated,
Jeroen.

[John Poff]

Hello,

I use Samba on several of my HP-UX boxes and I get the source and compile it myself. I know there are pre-compiled depots available out there, but I like to know what I'm running. Plus, once I learned how to build it myself it was easier to do when the new versions come out. It takes a while before someone will build a new version of it and put it in a depot.

JP

[Mark Landin]

If you are on HP-UX 11.00 or later, then you can use CIFS/9000 server and CIFS/9000 client, both available for free from either the HP Software depot site, or from the HP-UX 11i media. CIFS is just HP's packaging of Samba, and includes not just the functionality of Samba (which would be the CIFS/9000 client part) but also of things like Sharity, which allow your UX system to mount SMB shares from other systems (this would be the CIFS/9000 server part).

The advantage of this over Samba is that HP would support it if you have software support on your support contracts.

[Rainer von Bongartz]

Ok, you can use CIFS/9000 if you want an outdated version of Samba !!!!!

The current HP CIFS/9000 Server is based on the Samba Server, V. 2.0.6

[Jeroen_D]

Hi,

I know that the CIFS package exists but indeed it is revision 2.0.6 but adapted by HP. However it appears to be a 2.0.7 when you know that the O'Reilly book is available in html (via swat, home) and that this is only available starting from 2.0.7. So I think that the revision numberq HP is using are different from the official Samba releases.

If you install the CIFS package, then it will install Samba in directories such as /etc/samba, whereas I used to install samba in /opt/samba en /var/samba. I did this because those directories were mentioned in the packaging instructions.

Actually previously you still had to do a ./configure and a make, but then you could launch a shellscript (located in .../Packaging/HPUX) that created a samba.depot file. You then had to use "swinstall -s samba.depot" and that was it. Now I have to type "make install" and add the swat service to /etc/services, create samba startup scripts, create some runlevel links etc...work I could do and create a checklist but not as good as the swinstall utility. And I will be installing quite a lot of Samba's...

:(
A bit disappointed that this packaging is gone...

[Rainer von Bongartz]

I guess that this support for HP has been gone from SAMBA because of the official support from HP for CIFS.

I agree that's a shame.