Installation of Samba Install Samba by running the following commands: Samba is installed from the samba-&samba-version;/source directory. mkdir -p /etc/samba/private && mkdir -p /var/cache/samba && ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --with-piddir=/var/run \ --with-fhs \ --with-smbmount && make && make install && mv /usr/bin/smbmount /usr/bin/mount.smbfs && rm -rf /usr/private && echo "swat 901/tcp" >> /etc/services && echo "swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat" >> \ /etc/inetd.conf