Build Samba from Source

$ wget https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-x.y.z.tar.gz

$ tar -zxf samba-x.y.z.tar.gz

$ cd <samba-source-dir>/bootstrap/generated-dists/<distrowithversion>
$ ./bootstrap.sh
$ cd ../../../..

$ cd samba-x.y.z/

$ ./configure

Checking for gnutls >= 1.4.0 and broken versions : not found
/usr/src/samba-x.y.z/source4/lib/tls/wscript:37: error: Building the AD DC requires
GnuTLS (eg libgnutls-dev, gnutls-devel) for ldaps:// support and for the BackupKey protocol

'configure' finished successfully (1m2.432s)

Checking for header Python.h   : Distutils not installed? Broken python installation? Get python-config now! 
The configuration failed

--disable-python --without-ad-dc

$ ./configure --help

--enable-cups
          Build with cups support (default=yes)

$ ./configure ... --disable-cups

--without-ad-dc
          disable AD DC functionality (enables Samba 4 client and Samba 3 code base).

$ ./configure ... --without-ad-dc

$ ./configure ... --enable-debug 

$ ./configure ... --sbindir=/sbin/

$ ./configure ... --sysconfdir=/etc/samba/

$ ./configure ... --mandir=/usr/share/man/

$ make

$ make -j 2

Waf: Leaving directory `/usr/src/samba-x.y.z/bin'
'build' finished successfully (9m3.667s)

$ make test

$ sudo make install 

Waf: Leaving directory `/usr/src/samba-x.y.z/bin'
'install' finished successfully (18.243s)

export PATH=/usr/local/samba/bin/:/usr/local/samba/sbin/:$PATH

$ cd samba-x.y.z/

$ wget -O /tmp/patch.txt https://bugzilla.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=...

$ patch -p 1 < /tmp/patch.txt

$ smbd -b

#!/bin/bash
#
# samba-ad-dc	This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
# 		samba AD daemons.
#
# chkconfig: - 58 74
# description: Samba Active Directory Domain Controller

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: samba-ad-dc
# Required-Start: $network $local_fs $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $network $local_fs $remote_fs
# Should-Start: $syslog $named
# Should-Stop: $syslog $named
# Short-Description: start and stop samba-ad-dc
# Description: Samba Active Directory Domain Controller
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

prog=samba
prog_dir=/usr/local/samba/sbin/
lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/$prog

start() {
	[ "$NETWORKING" = "no" ] && exit 1
	echo -n $"Starting Samba AD DC: "
	daemon $prog_dir/$prog -D
	RETVAL=$?
	echo
	[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile
	return $RETVAL
}

 stop() {
	[ "$EUID" != "0" ] && exit 4
	echo -n $"Shutting down Samba AD DC: "
	killproc $prog_dir/$prog
	RETVAL=$?
	echo
	[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile
	return $RETVAL
}

case "$1" in
start)
	start
	;;
stop)
	stop
	;;
status)
	status $prog
	;;
restart)
	stop
	start
	;;
*)
	echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
	exit 2
esac

# chmod 755 /etc/init.d/samba-ad-dc

#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          samba-ad-dc
# Required-Start:    $network $local_fs $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:     $network $local_fs $remote_fs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: start Samba daemons for the AD DC
### END INIT INFO

#
# Start/stops the Samba daemon (samba).
# Adapted from the Samba 3 packages.
#

PATH=/usr/local/samba/sbin:/usr/local/samba/bin:$PATH

PIDDIR=/usr/local/samba/var/run
SAMBAPID=$PIDDIR/samba.pid

# clear conflicting settings from the environment
unset TMPDIR

# See if the daemon and the config file are there
test -x /usr/local/samba/sbin/samba -a -r /usr/local/samba/etc/smb.conf || exit 0

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

case "$1" in
        start)
                SERVER_ROLE=`samba-tool testparm --parameter-name="server role"  2>/dev/null | tail -1`
                if [ "$SERVER_ROLE" != "active directory domain controller" ]; then
                    exit 0
                fi

                # CVE-2013-4475
                KEYFILE=/usr/local/samba/private/tls/key.pem
                if [ -e $KEYFILE ]; then
                    KEYPERMS=`stat -c %a $KEYFILE`
                    if [ "$KEYPERMS" != "600" ]; then
                        echo "wrong permission on $KEYFILE, must be 600"
                        echo "samba will not start (CVE-2013-4475)"
                        echo "Removing all tls .pem files will cause an auto-regeneration with the correct permissions."
                        exit 1
                    fi
               fi

               log_daemon_msg "Starting Samba AD DC daemon" "samba"
               # Make sure we have our PIDDIR, even if it's on a tmpfs
               install -o root -g root -m 755 -d $PIDDIR

               if ! start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/local/samba/sbin/samba -- -D; then
                   log_end_msg 1
                   exit 1
               fi

               log_end_msg 0
               ;;
       stop)
               log_daemon_msg "Stopping Samba AD DC daemon" "samba"

              start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $SAMBAPID
               # Wait a little and remove stale PID file
               sleep 1
               if [ -f $SAMBAPID ] && ! ps h `cat $SAMBAPID` > /dev/null
               then
                   # Stale PID file (samba was succesfully stopped),
                   # remove it (should be removed by samba itself IMHO.)
                   rm -f $SAMBAPID
               fi

              log_end_msg 0

               ;;
       restart|force-reload)
               $0 stop
               sleep 1
               $0 start
               ;;
       status)
               status_of_proc -p $SAMBAPID /usr/local/samba/sbin/samba samba
               exit $?
               ;;
       *)
               echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/samba-ad-dc {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}"
               exit 1
               ;;
esac

exit 0

# chmod 755 /etc/init.d/samba-ad-dc

# chkconfig samba-ad-dc enable

# chkconfig samba-ad-dc disable

# update-rc.d samba-ad-dc defaults

# update-rc.d -f samba-ad-dc remove

# service start samba-ad-dc

# service stop samba-ad-dc

# systemctl mask smbd nmbd winbind
# systemctl disable smbd nmbd winbind

[Unit]
Description=Samba Active Directory Domain Controller
After=network.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/local/samba/sbin/samba -D
PIDFile=/usr/local/samba/var/run/samba.pid
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

# systemctl daemon-reload

# systemctl enable samba-ad-dc

# systemctl disable samba-ad-dc

# systemctl start samba-ad-dc

# systemctl stop samba-ad-dc

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