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Samba on Solaris 8

Hi,

currently I am running Solaris 8 and I am trying to install Samba so that I can run smbsh to access a Windows server. I do the following:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/samba --with-smbwrapper
make
make install

All the documentation I have seen says what I am doing is correct. Neither the configure nor any of the make commands fail. And once the installation is complete everything else works fine. However, smbsh isn't installed. The actual binary isn't installed and hence if I type smbsh then I get the message "smbsh: command not found".

Please help...
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Sorry I didn't mean that.. I meant that for some obscure reason the binary file smbsh isn't installed. It doesn't physically exist in /usr/local/samba/bin or /usr/local/samba/sbin, and the find returns nothing.

I can see the bin/smbsh being linked when I do a make but make install doesn't create it for some reason. This is why I am wondering if my installation method is correct and if so why I can't install it.

When I check the source, I can see the smbsh related files ready to be compiled.

Sorry for not making that clearer..
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worked it out, broken make file for smbwrapper. The smbsh executable was still sitting in my source directory nicely compiled and ready run.. but liddler, thanks for you help anyway..
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and u stewbeast.. it works now that I have manually copied the executables to the right place... thanks guys