Large Scale Samba Installations
To start with, we need to download the current stable version of Samba. As most prepackaged binaries are geared to work on a wide range of hardware, we're going to build Samba from scratch so we can benefit from using code specific to our architecture. It's important to verify that the source code hasn't been tampered with. We can do this by verifying the file's PGP signature and using the main Samba Distribution Key, all of which can be found at www.samba.org. Go ahead and download the samba-2.2.8.tar.gz, samba-2.2.8.tar.asc and samba-pubkey.asc files.
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