Downloading the Samba Distribution
If you would like to download the latest version of the Samba software, the primary web site is http://www.samba.org. Once connected to this page, you’ll see links to several Samba mirror sites across the world, both for the standard Samba web pages and for sites devoted exclusively to downloading Samba. For the best performance, choose a site that is closest to your own geographic location.
The standard Samba web sites have Samba documentation and tutorials, mailing-list archives, and the latest Samba news, as well as source and binary distributions of Samba. The download sites (sometimes called F T P sites) have only the source and binary distributions. Unless you specifically want an older version of the Samba server or are going to install a binary distribution, download the latest source distribution from the closest mirror site. This distribution is always named:
samba-latest.tar.gz
which for the 2.2.6 release is an approximately 5MB file.
The source distribution has been archived with tar and then compressed with the GNU gzip program. To unpack it, move the file to the directory in which you want the Samba source directory to be located, then cd to that directory and run the command:
$ tar xvfz samba-latest.tar.gzOr, if you do not have the GNU tar program (which also handles the unzipping):
$gunzip samba-latest.tar.gz$tar xvf samba-latest.tar
In that latter case, you might need to install the GNU gunzip program first. While the tar command ...
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