Download the source and uncompress:
wget http://samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/samba-3.6.23.tar.gz tar -xzf samba-3.6.23.tar.gz
And cross compile for ARM:
cd samba-3.6.23/source3 ./autogen.sh ./configure --without-krb5 --without-ldap --without-ads \ --disable-cups --enable-swat=no --with-winbind=no \ --target=arm-linux-gnueabi --host=arm-linux-gnueabi \ --prefix= --with-configdir=/etc \ samba_cv_CC_NEGATIVE_ENUM_VALUES=yes \ libreplace_cv_HAVE_GETADDRINFO=no \ ac_cv_file__proc_sys_kernel_core_pattern=yes make make install DESTDIR=/home/export/rootfs
Create a Samba configuration file (smb.conf) and place it in /etc. Below is a minimal example configuration, sharing the home directories located in /home.
[global] workgroup = WORKGROUP netbios name = SAMBA_FS [Home] path = /home writable = yes comment = Home Directories
Samba can be started using the following. smbd is the main Samba3 daemon and handles the SMB protocol. nmbd provides NetBIOS name server support.
/sbin/smbd -D /sbin/nmbd -D
You can add new Samba users using
smbpassword -a <username>
To be successful, there must be an entry in /etc/passwd corresponding to the user.
If smbd or nmbd reports smbd: error while loading shared libraries: libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, then you are missing the GCC low-level runtime library. You can copy it from your arm-linux-gnueabi cross compiler:
cp /usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /home/export/rootfs/lib
If smbd fails to start, check the logs in /var/log.smbd. If smbd fails to daemonise and there is no error message, potentially you have a user account problem. If you don't have a /etc/passwd file, create one with a root and nobody user:
root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/bash
The link below contains a bzip2 tarball of Samba compiled for ARM: