How do I install Samba on Red Hat Linux?

Question

I have just downloaded the samba-3.6.1.tar.gz file from the Samba website and want to install Samba on my RedHat Linux machine, I have extracted the contents of the samba-3.6.1.tar.gz folder but havent a clue what to do now, is there an RPM file buried in there somewhere I can run? I am very new to Linux! Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

It sounds like you downloaded the Samba source, and that's not what you want right now. Use yum install samba. That will find the correct RPM for your machine on a RedHat (or other trusted) server, download it, and install it for you. If yum gives you a message about not having permissions, use sudo yum install samba. If that says sudo: command not found, type su to switch to the root user, then yum install sudo samba. Remember to log out of root (logout or ctrl-d) as soon as you can; you shouldn't do more as root than you need to.