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
*.gz means it's a compress file, uncompress file first!
try this:
tar -zxvf samba-3.0.28a.tar.gz
Not necessarily 
File extensions do not work as in Windows.
I would suggest you to check what kind of file is this way:
file samba-3.0.28a.tar.gz
Regards.
This depends on the tar version you are using.
Another option would be:
gunzip -c samba-3.0.28a.tar.gz | tar xvf -
Regards.
The -z option is found in GNU tar for example but not on a lot of other implmentations./
gzcat samba-3.0.28a.tar.gz | tar xvfp -