Guest LilBambi Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 (edited) Everyone is entitled to their opinion crp. If you don't like it, that's your opinion and that's fine. It's been great for me on both Linux and Mac as hosts and Windows and Linux as guest oses. FWIW Samba4 I think is in the Fedora 17 repos...and /or. pmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=samba4 Don't know if this helps or not., here is the fedora wiki, http://fedoraproject...Samba4 I'm thinking if it is not really hitting fedora til 18, then rehat will be after. That's great to know Barry! Edited December 19, 2012 by LilBambi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryB Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 also..try http://rpmfind.net/l...hp?query=samba4 sorry I really shouldn't watch TV and do this at the same time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted December 19, 2012 Author Share Posted December 19, 2012 also..try http://rpmfind.net/l...hp?query=samba4 sorry I really shouldn't watch TV and do this at the same time just as I was typing in a response to put in the "R" my page updated ...anyway, they only have alpha versions which i can not put in over here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryB Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Yeah, I saw it was alpha, thinking they just haven't made it through full testing as far as Fedora and/or CentOS, but it would appear at least they are working on it. Personally I have found that some packages that can be compiled will complie on some distros yet not others(usually a dependency problem that the distro has not addressed yet) crp are you trying to use samba4 on a client box or for testing? if testing why not try the alpha...if client..I follow your logic. Maybe this will help http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_4/OS_Requirements#Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_or_CentOS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Really? I don't think so .... the VirtualBox installed just fine, but when I tried to run a vm it failed and said to run the setup again. [root@rh5 bitnami]# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ] Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [FAILED] (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong) [root@rh5 bitnami]# cat /var/log/vbox-install.log Makefile:181: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop. so while perhaps linux itself is not to blame, the Linux Infrastructure just stinks. I'm supposed to be a user/admin not a programmer on this. This message only says you don't have kernel sources installed.. Usually just the headers are sufficient. Search your package manager and install linux headers for your current kernel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted December 21, 2012 Author Share Posted December 21, 2012 (edited) This message only says you don't have kernel sources installed.. Usually just the headers are sufficient. Search your package manager and install linux headers for your current kernel. yeah, i saw that and checked it out and there were no files in the directories that were listed under a different error message from VirtualBox after installing DKMS /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ] Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [ OK ] Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMSError! echo Your kernel headers for kernel 2.6.18-308.24.1.el5xen cannot be found at /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.24.1.el5xen/build or /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.24.1.el5xen/source. [FAILED] (Failed, trying without DKMS) Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [FAILED] (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong) Don't understand this really as I installed the RPM for CentOS from VirtualBox! Yeah, I saw it was alpha, thinking they just haven't made it through full testing as far as Fedora and/or CentOS, but it would appear at least they are working on it. Personally I have found that some packages that can be compiled will complie on some distros yet not others(usually a dependency problem that the distro has not addressed yet) crp are you trying to use samba4 on a client box or for testing? if testing why not try the alpha...if client..I follow your logic. Maybe this will help http://wiki.samba.or...Linux_or_CentOS did a lot more digging and work on this, and there is a good chance this is not doable due to python being so tightly wound up in the CentOS5.8 core and there being no way to really update python. Also no way to update CentOS5.8->CentOS6 Edited December 21, 2012 by crp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Sounds like time for a new distro? That is not Linux fault. Sounds like it's CentOS fault? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 CentOS is basically Redhat without the paid support. It is an outstanding distribution. I don't think the entire distribution should be blamed because one app won't build or install on it. If we trashed distros because of this, we'd have to trash them all because none are perfect; even the ones that approach perfection, like Slackware , occasionally burp up something they've been fed. Just my thoughts... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted December 21, 2012 Author Share Posted December 21, 2012 CentOS is basically Redhat without the paid support. It is an outstanding distribution. I don't think the entire distribution should be blamed because one app won't build or install on it. If we trashed distros because of this, we'd have to trash them all because none are perfect; even the ones that approach perfection, like Slackware , occasionally burp up something they've been fed. Just my thoughts... Actually I am blaming SAMBA and Oracle. SAMBA should have in their requirements which OS are required and if they are going to allow builds against secondary libraries, the executables need to reference the secondary libraries and not the system libraries. It is poor documentation and/or implementation of the build process.Oracle to my mind is worse - I dl'ed the VirtualBox rpm for CentOS5 from their site and it installed without errors or warning. Yet it will not run and probably due to an XEN problem (see this VirtualBox thread). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Samba has always been problematic. True. But this sounds more like issues between Redhat Enterprise/Fedora/CentOS and the way it is being handled between these three distros today. Here's an interesting article though: Install Samba Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS/Scientific Linux 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I just have no need for Samba. I share between Windows and Linux installations on my machine by using a common partition (FAT32) between those operating systems. I find this ever so much easier. That's just me, though. I'm lazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Me too Eric. Samba is swiss cheese with a door anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichase Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Well I can honestly say, that SAMBA is working great with an Arch Linux front end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Missing kernel headers, I tell ye. I'm not familiar with CentOS, but for the Xen kernel it looks like this should do the trick: yum install kernel-xen-devel The headers version must match the running kernel. See HowTos >> I need the Kernel Source Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 I wanted to use the SAMBA4 as a Domain Controller for a mainly msWindows LAN. Project is now essentially dead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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