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Title: upgrade samba
Post by: Niem on June 28, 2001, 05:11:09 PM
Hi,
How do i upgrade to samba 2.2.0 in e-smith 4.1.2?
I.ve tried to install the rpm (rpm -Uvh ....), but i get all kinds of error
messages.
The reason i like to do this is because i can't access the e-smith
samba server using windows XP.
Title: Re: upgrade samba
Post by: Rob Thomson on June 28, 2001, 06:13:04 PM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Niem"

> Hi,
> How do i upgrade to samba 2.2.0 in e-smith 4.1.2?
> I.ve tried to install the rpm (rpm -Uvh ....), but i get all kinds of error
> messages.
> The reason i like to do this is because i can't access the e-smith
> samba server using windows XP.

Hi Niem,
This is what I did to upgrade to 2.2.0, it's taken from a combo of posts by "Tina" & "Dan Brown" a couple of months back

1) rpm -e --nodeps samba samba-common
2) rpm -e --nodeps samba-clients
3) Install 2.2.x : rpm -i   or   rpm -Uvh (cant remember which I used now, sorry!)
4) This apparently blows the smbpasswd file so you you have to reset passwords for all users (hope you don't have many).

Hope this helps.

Regards
Rob
Title: Re: upgrade samba
Post by: Dan Brown on June 28, 2001, 06:15:31 PM
...so, do as I did not do, and back up /etc/smbpasswd.  I still don't know _why_ it nukes smbpasswd, but it apparently does.
Title: Re: upgrade samba
Post by: Niem on June 29, 2001, 12:00:38 PM
After rpm -e --nodeps samba samba-common, i get the following
error message:
cannot remove /var/lock/samba - directory not empty
removal of /etc/samba/smbusers failed: No such file or directory

Any suggestions to solve this problem are welcome.
Title: Re: upgrade samba
Post by: Niem on June 29, 2001, 12:29:22 PM
Ok, the error message in my previous message is not a problem.
I've finished upgrading to samba 2.2.0 successfully.
But my problem still exists:
I can't access my e-smith 4.1.2 server using samba in combination with
Windows XP.
Any more suggestions?
Perhaps samba 2.2.1? (I can't find that one)
Title: Re: upgrade samba
Post by: Rob Thomson on June 29, 2001, 02:43:15 PM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Niem"

> Ok, the error message in my previous message is not a problem.
> I've finished upgrading to samba 2.2.0 successfully.
> But my problem still exists:
> I can't access my e-smith 4.1.2 server using samba in combination with
> Windows XP.
> Any more suggestions?
> Perhaps samba 2.2.1? (I can't find that one)

Sorry Niem I've no experience of XP.
Just a thought though, there was a problem with W2k workstations with SP2 installed... could be XP has this built in.
This is supposed to be fixed with samba 2.2.1

Regards

Rob