Topic: upgrading to samba 3.3.4

[bugjan]

Hello,

is it possible to upgrade samba to the latest (3.3.4) version on sme-server 7.4? Or will it break everything? Anyone out there tried? Anyone who wants to contribute instructions? I think a lot of people will need this as it seems to be the only way to be able to join a Windows 7 RC computer to the samba/sme domain.

Thanks in advance
/Erik

Relevant link for joining Windows 7 RC to Samba domains: http://ggts.net/2009/05/17/joining-a-windows-7-system-to-a-samba-domain/

[Stefano]

it's possible only if you find it in rpm format for RH4..
then, once upgraded, you'd check if there are new settings in smb.conf and, if so, you have to create your custom template.

IMO it's not worth..

Ciao
Stefano

[cactus]

it's possible only if you find it in rpm format for RH4..

When it is officially in RHEL4 it will be in CentOS 4 and hence in SME Server 7 as well, otherwise it needs to be a contrib-like solution and you should expect no support for it. Best bet is to add a bug as a feature request, perhaps the dev team will consider maintaining their own samba, but AFAIK Windows 7 is still beta and therefore unstable, so I think RHEL team will wait for a more stable release.

[juang3d]

Here are the packages:

Centos : http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/old/centos/4/i386/3.3.4-39/
RHEL4 : http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/old/rhel/4/i386/3.3.4-39/

Someone can tell me how to upgrade/downgrade/whatever-grade? hehe

In a fast way, no need a ultra detailed how to, only that i have a few machines that NEED Windows 7 and i'm in a great pain with that problem.

Cheers and thanks.

[cactus]

Someone can tell me how to upgrade/downgrade/whatever-grade? hehe

In a fast way, no need a ultra detailed how to, only that i have a few machines that NEED Windows 7 and i'm in a great pain with that problem.

I am not sure that is really easy as you will need to find out what needs to be altered to the configuration file(s) to make it work and after that incorporate the changes in the template system so they survive updates and condfiguration changes. Read the SME Server Develoeprs Guide linked in the wiki for more details on the internals of SME Server, especially the internal configuration database as well as the template system.

[Stefano]

Here are the packages:

Centos : http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/old/centos/4/i386/3.3.4-39/
RHEL4 : http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/old/rhel/4/i386/3.3.4-39/

Someone can tell me how to upgrade/downgrade/whatever-grade? hehe

In a fast way, no need a ultra detailed how to, only that i have a few machines that NEED Windows 7 and i'm in a great pain with that problem.

Cheers and thanks.

hi

I think that the rpms are not compatible with SME.. infact there's no samba-common rpm..

anyway, if you really want, I suggest you to:
- install a test SME (real or virtual)
- download samba, samba-client and samba-utils rpms
- install them via

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yum localinstall *.rpm
- give

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signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot
- test, test, test, test

ah, naturally, if you upgrade you are on your own as there's no support for such an operation

edit: I forgot the templates step, but I see Cactus gave you the rigth directions..

Ciao
Stefano