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Hi frens,

I have to install samba on UNIX box
for that i have downloaded the samba file from netand now trying to untar that file and getting following error:

# tar -xvf samba-3.0.28a.tar.gz
UX:tar: ERROR: Directory checksum error

even i checked many times by again downloading the file to confirm the fresh file.

Please help me out to overcome this situation.

Nimish
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*.gz means it's a compress file, uncompress file first!
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try this:
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tar -zxvf samba-3.0.28a.tar.gz
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*.gz means it's a compress file, uncompress file first!
Not necessarily
File extensions do not work as in Windows.
I would suggest you to check what kind of file is this way:
Code:
file samba-3.0.28a.tar.gz
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try this:
Code:
tar -zxvf samba-3.0.28a.tar.gz
This depends on the tar version you are using.

Another option would be:
Code:
gunzip -c samba-3.0.28a.tar.gz | tar xvf -
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The -z option is found in GNU tar for example but not on a lot of other implmentations./
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Hi frens,

I have to install samba on UNIX box
for that i have downloaded the samba file from netand now trying to untar that file and getting following error:

# tar -xvf samba-3.0.28a.tar.gz
UX:tar: ERROR: Directory checksum error

even i checked many times by again downloading the file to confirm the fresh file.

Please help me out to overcome this situation.

Nimish
gzcat samba-3.0.28a.tar.gz | tar xvfp -
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