Installing Samba 4 Server step by step

For the installation of the Samba 4 software, we will use GIT. So, we should start creating a workspace (for example, directory) to download the sources of the Samba 4 Server stable branch into it. In a terminal window, just execute the following command:

leal@debian7:~$ mkdir ~/workspace; cd ~/workspace && echo "OK"

We must receive an OK output in our terminal, and that is sufficient to be aware that the workspace was created successfully and we are already inside it. Now, let's download the Samba 4 source code and continue our installation process.

Tip

The previous command will create the workspace directly on our home directory.

Now, we will clone the Samba 4 stable branch from the official project's repository, ...

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