Samba - 3.4.2

How do I install this Samba on an Intel Mac with OS X 10.5? We have our Macs connected to a server with smb and massive problems in general and with Adobe Creative Suite CS3 specifically and I would urgently like to try this Samba instead of the default Samba that comes with OS X 10.5.

However, I have not the slightest idea how to make that work! Is there anybody who can help me or tell me where I can find instructions to install this and to make it work? Thank a lot!

I won't get into the "make an installer for me" arguments. These updates are free and we should be grateful for the programmers who keep them current. If you are not advanced enough to run FINK, you have no business trying to update/modify default system files! Wait for Apples next auto updater.

Anyway I do have a question... as I understand it, the FINK SAMBA install does not replace/update the built-in Apple one. It creates a NEW installation of the needed SAMBA files in a different directory. This is where my confusion comes in. How does one get OS X to use the new version instead of it's default old one?

The closest thing I can find (via Google searches) says stuff like, "Install SAMBA via Fink and just modify the appropriate startup files" etc. But nowhere does it say what and where these "appropriate startup files" are!

I am somewhat familiar with UNIX having used some very specialized equipment that had their own flavors of stripped-down UNIX as their OS, so I could follow a tutorial OK. And most people can follow steps even if they don't understand what all of them do.

Perhaps instead of a full installer being programmed etc. a simple 10-12 step "how to" tutorial of what files and parameters need to be changed AFTER Fink installs it's new version would be sufficient.

Then if something doesn't work these few manually done steps could be reversed, and one could go back to using the built-in OS X version with nothing lost but a few MB of drive space.

Any system experts out there that could just jot down their steps and share them after they do their next install/update?

Are there any actual reviews of this software?
I agree with all of these installer issues.
It SHOULD have one!

However, I need to know how this works.

Adobe Indesign CS2 has a serious bug when working with SMB.
My users are having to pull down all of their files to their desktops, work with them, then when done, copy them back up.

Adobe is aware of this bug, and they are playing the finger pointing game at Apple, even though all other software, including their own, works fine.

I am stuck in the middle.

I need to get these G5's on Tiger working with SMB!

I would be willing to try this it there's a chance it will fix the problem.

Please post some actual reviews for any of you who were able to work through the complicated install problems.

I would like to know how it works and if there are any known issues.

Thanks!

I've posted a document detailing the steps necessary to integrate an OS X machine into the Active Directory using Samba3, for use as a fileserver. The document goes over compiling, configuration, and integration. See: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rgerdes/samba_mac/samba_ads.htm

yeeeaah....so if you could sort of....check the readme, and look at the part where it tells you where the install instructions are, that'd be grrrreaaat....

and uh, why don't you go ahead and come in on sunday as well.