Download the source and unpack…

# wget http://samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/samba-3.4.3.tar.gz
# tar zxvf samba-3.4.3.tar.gz
# cd samba-3.4.3/source3

Some people have tried the latest Samba 3.4.4 and report that it works with the rest of these instructions as well. If you want 3.4.4, do this instead:
# wget http://samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/samba-3.4.4.tar.gz
# tar zxvf samba-3.4.4.tar.gz
# cd samba-3.4.4/source3

I needed some development headers for the compile, so

# apt-get install libldap2-dev libkrb5-dev uuid-dev libpam0g-dev zlib1g-dev

You may need more than these – if so, your configure will fail and it will tell you that something.h wasn’t found. apt-cache search something will usually give you the package you are looking for, or a quick Google will tell you what to get.  For example, I was told uuid.h was missing, so:

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