I've had some recent success compiling some simple programs to my home directory without root access (wget, screen, less).

My Question is this: Can I compile a complex program like Samba WITHOUT root access to my home directory? Or are the multiple library dependencies going to cause an issue? (I should be able to compile those too and create library folders in my home directory too... right?) Or just the general complexity of the program? Will I have limited functionality?

I'm trying to get our Unix server at work to be able to access the network drives we have without having root access... are there other ways to do this besides Samba?

Thanks,
GoldFish