Upgrading to SAMBA 2.0.9 on Unix 11.0

[Laurie A. Krumrey]

Hi All,

I was told I need to upgrade to the lastest
release of SAMBA 2.09. OK, I don't really
have a clue what SAMBA is and what or how to
do this upgrade.

I did find the directories for samba under
/opt/samba

and this is running on my system:
SCRAPPY [/] # ps -ef | grep -i samba
root 1343 1 0 May 19 ? 0:28 /opt/samba/bin/nmbd -D
root 1345 1 0 May 19 ? 0:00 /opt/samba/bin/smbd -D
root 19908 18647 1 10:03:46 pts/tb 0:00 grep -i samba
root 11990 1345 0 08:00:27 ? 0:00 /opt/samba/bin/smbd -D

How do I tell what the current version of
SAMBA I am running now?

How do I do an upgrade safely without
hurting my production system?

SAMBA Challenged...Laurie

[John Poff · Accepted solution]

Laurie,

Samba is some wonderful Open Source software that lets you share filesystems and printers from Unix systems to Windows machines.

First, to see which version of Samba you are running, try this command:

/opt/samba/bin/smbstatus

As for upgrading to the latest version, I'd suggest going to the Samba web pages. You can download the 2.0.9 version and read up on the documentation and FAQ. I've upgraded previous versions before and it was pretty easy, and it didn't hurt my existing setup. You'll probably have to get the source code and compile it, unless you can find a version for HP-UX that someone has put together already.

The URL for the Samba web pages is:

http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba

Good luck!

[mvr]

For The futrue reference try this command to find the version of any installed software:

swinstall | grep

in your case:

swinstall | grep samba