The only reason I stepped into RHEL4 was the hardware support. I have a new Dell PE2900 server with SAS drives and for RHL9 no drivers are available, so I had to step forward to RHEL4 (which is obvious for me). I have almost 100 Linux servers running with Red Hat Linux 9, you know, the obsolete version. ;) All these servers are running flawlessly with Samba 3.0.14a from samba.org
I can't remember I ever signed a contract with you to support my servers :-) However, my opinion is that I the support I receive from samba.org is (up until now) sufficient for me; if I may quote the patch for W2k3 SP1, that came out a few hours after the release of SP1. What took more effort concerning the support of Samba, was the flaw of LDAP failover with W2k3 DC's. I was banging my head regarding this issue and entering a bug on bugzilla about this issue didn't help me. I was however actively involved to tackle that issue and it was solved with a proposed patch of "my partner in crime". So I was not only consuming support from Samba but also contributing support to Samba. :-) When RHEL5 is released I'll take a look which version of Samba they will use as default and hopefully this will be one of the latest Samba versions. I can change at any time the Samba packages from samba.org to the RH Samba packages, which give me full support from RH then... :-) Maybe I have to consider CENTOS instead of RHEL4, because I didn't need RHEL4 for support from Red Hat, I only needed for hardware reasons. Regards, Alex. -----Original Message----- From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday 18 September 2006 2:15 To: Alex de Vaal Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: Support of Samba on RHEL4? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alex de Vaal wrote: > Is there any technical reason NOT to use the packages of samba.org on > RHEL4? Nope. No reason at all other than RH support. > Regarding the above info I'd like to use the original samba packages > on RHEL4. If I only void support for Samba at Red Hat, so be it. I'm > convinced I'm better off with Samba support at samba.org... For those with more complex setups that a single PDC or standalone server, I would agree. But I'm not signing a contract to support you servers :-) cheers, jerry -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba