Help needed - Cant Upgrade from Samba 3.0.3-5

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 08.07.2004 schrieb Paul Farrow um 0:30:

> I have recently upgraded my mini-itx v8000 from redhat 9 to fedora core
> 2. Samba is fine except there now appears to be no smbmount / unable to
> mount with fstab type of smbfs to mount the windows shares.

$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/smbmount
samba-client-3.0.3-5

> Looking at the version the fedora distribution installed (3.0.3-5) I
> thought I would upgrade to samba 3.0.4-2. Which I downloaded the source
> built the rpm and then tried to install and got various dependency
> errors all seemed to be telling me that I dont have samba 3.0.3, looked
> for various binaries / source for the straight 3.0.3 and cant find
> anything.

rpm -qa | grep samba

> I then decided to try the 3.0.4-1.i386.rpm and got the following error 
> 
> /etc/security/selinux/file_contexts: No such file or directory [I guess
> this isnt a real problem]

Just a warning.

> error: Failed dependencies:
> 
> libcom_err.so.3 is needed by samba-3.0.4-1

A real error, forget the samba-3.0.4-1 package as it is not for Fedora.

> samba-common >= 3.0.0 is needed by (installed) gnome-vfs2-smb-2.6.0-8
> 
> any ideas please as I dont normally get errors like this from
> distributions !!!

You didn't really explain what you tried to use samba and what failed
with which error messages or which behaviour.

> Paul Farrow

Alexander


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