Upgrading from 3.0x. to 3.4. has come up several times in the past. You
may see some earlier post from me on the subject. Make a copy of your
current smb.conf, private directory and locks directory. (These
directories should include your password database and other key files.)
Assuming a single server, no domain trusts, TDB backend, unix users in
/etc/passwd, the existing config should be mostly fine with samba 3.4.x.
You may need to explicitly create an "Administrator" account if one does
not exist.
You may need to explicitly define a local unix "nobody" account to map
as the guest account
e.g.
useradd .... smbnobody
vi smb.conf
.....
guest account = smb_nobody
...
There may have been changes on how password policies function (e.g
maximum password age etc.)
You may also want to run " net groupmap list" before and after the
upgade to make sure that well know windows groups (e.g. Domain Admins,
Domain Users, Users etc) are maintained.
On 08/10/2011 06:38 PM, Marc Fromm wrote:
The server currently has 3.0.33 on it, but it needs at least 3.4 to work with
windows 7 computers. Red hat will not be upgrading samba beyond 3.0.33 for
their 32bit RH5 users. Thus I am stuck and cannot use yum and the red hat repos
to do the upgrade.
On site directed me to this page to download the rpms, but I am not experienced
enough with manually updating a package.
http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/ . I downloaded all the files listed under the
3.6/rhel/5/i386 directory.
Thus I was hoping to find to step by step on how to do the upgrade.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Weiss [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 2:17 PM
To: Marc Fromm
Cc: John Drescher; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Samba] windows 7 cannot connect
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Marc Fromm<[email protected]> wrote:
My googling seems to point at upgrading samba to 3.4. Currently installed on my
RHEL 5.2 32 bit server is as listed below for smb and samba.
If I was running RHEL 64 bit I would be supported by red hat and updating the
OS to the latest 5.x would provide this for me. For some reason red hat feels
they do not need to support their 32 bit users, which my server is running, and
updating the OS does not update certain packages like samba and php. Even
though I have paid support with red hat they will not provide support to update
the needed packages.
Thus, is there a detailed set of procedures on how to manually upgrade samba on
a RHEL 5.2 server? I do not want to try this by trial and error and cripple the
server.
I think RH 5 has a samba 3.x package, or was that only Centos? I don't recall
what version it was intro'd
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