Samba - Sharing files with XP and missing files

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 22.09.2004 schrieb YigalB um 22:35:

> I read in Samba's web site that SWAT is a GUI for Samba's CFG file - so
> I downloaded it but RPM fail to install it because liblber & libldap are
> required. 

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#getsoftware

> In http://rpmfind.net <http://rpmfind.net/>  I found files relevant for
> Mandrake but not for FC2 which I use. What should I do now? Is it
> safe/ok to use libs compiled for other distributions? Or is there
> another solution?

Do yourself a favour and don't use any RPM from "wildlife".

> Another thing that bother me is why doesn't RPM go and take the needed
> files automatically ? I mean all the information is there: the names,
> the version..

That is not the task of a packet manager. Use yum or up2date or apt
(which is not part of Fedora Core, but available through 3rd party
repositories).

> Yigal 

Alexander


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