[Discuss] Help with samba3x and libwbclient.so.0

[srehrlich at gmail.com (Scott Ehrlich)]

Revisiting a recent posting of mine -

So I have an isolated network consisting of a Win 2008 R2 w/SP1 domain
controller and an unpatched (i.e. out of box) 64-bit RHEL 5.7
workstation.

The goal is to get the RHEL workstation to join the domain controller
for authentication.

I was recently reminded, when doing this before, that the stock samba
on the RHEL box does not work, that, on my CentOS box, and other
CentOS systems I've recently built, I've had to remove the native
samba packages and replace them with samba3x.

So two questions -

1) What exactly is samba3x - from where does it originate?   No amount
of googling reveals an answer, other than available patches.
samba.org doesn't seem to say anything about it.

2) An attempted rpm install of the latest version of samba3x, obtained
from the CentOS site (didn't have immediate access to the RHEL repo) ,
hit some snags:

rpm -Uvh samba3x-<package> hit some unmet library dependencies.   I
resolve two of the three, but libwbclient.so.0 is refusing to be
acknowledged.

It lives in /usr/local/samba/...

I've placed it in /lib64 and tried ldconfig and a reboot.   It refuses
to be picked up.

What am I missing?

Thanks.

Scott