Very Computer

Hi,

I am a relative novice to Samba and Linux and, certainly, there are
things I do not know so any help would be highly appreciated.

Lately I downloaded samba 2.2.3a, compiled it and everthing seems fine.
Now, how can I get the new samba to look for my actual configuration
files smb.conf and smbpasswd from the previous samba version.

I installed the new samba 2.2.3a at /usr/local/samba, while samba 2.2.2
files are under /etc/sbin. In the beginning the new samba did't work
because the smb.conf file wasn't at the location where nmbd and smbd were
located.  I figured that I need to put my smb.conf file at the same place
where smbd and nmbd, it worked and I can see the linux box from windows
network places, but I can't logon to it. Do I have to add users again? Or
can I just use the old password files.

Thanks

I'm using:
SuSE Linux 7.2 (i386) Kernel: 2.4.4-4GB (i686)

backup the original configurations, install the new Samba, rewrite the new
configuration files with the old.
Or,

mv /etc/smb.conf /etc/smb.conf.orig
mv /etc/smbpasswd /etc/smbpasswd.orig

Install the new Samba then;

cp /etc/smb.conf.orig /etc/smb.conf
cp /etc/smbpasswd.orig /etc/smbpasswd