> What OS are you running? Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant) > You should do the openldap upgrade separate from the samba upgrade. > Depending your OS version you may have packages to update openldap or > samba. If you are using linux you may have minor upgrades available as > packages which may fix known bugs. You should make a complete back up > of your ldap data first and have a plan to roll back. If you are > compiling openldap you can compile to an alternate location from your > current LDAP. You may need to copy the samba schema into the new > openldap file system path . If all goes well, you should be able to > stop the old ldap server process, copy data over to the file system > path, and start it up. > > > I suggest you use a spare machine to test compiling openldap (if need > be) and to test importing LDAP data from a backup. > > > I believe Samba 3.3 supports Windows 7, but I have not tried it. I have > used samba 3.4.x and 3.5.x. Depending on your OS you may need to > either update packages or build from scratch. You may find it > easier to set up a new machine with a new version of linux (assuming > linux) that already has a newer openldap and samba installed. Samba > 3.4.x will have several changes in terms of machine account creation, > idmap caching, and winbind caching. Also, you may need to explicitly > define a "nobody" user With samba 3.4.x and 3.5.x I have a small > issue with creating new machine accounts. See earlier posts to this > list from my name. I have Oracle Directory Server as my ldap backend, > so I think it is more of an LDAP issue then a samba issue. > > > For the samba upgrade you may want to set up a test machine to become > more familiar with the new version. You should assume that there will > be some glitches during the upgrade. You may need several hours to > make the cutover. Make sure you back up your configuration, spool, > cache etc directories just in case you need to roll back to the previous > version >
Ok I'm gonna try all that on test machines. I let you know. Thank you ! > > > > > > > > On 06/06/12 07:15, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I run a samba 3.0.10-1.4E.2 with openldap 2.2.13 on the same server (red > > hat 4) > > I would like to upgrade both to be able to join win7 machine to my domain > > (and because openldap crash sometimes..). > > > > I have no idea how to do that and I don't know if it takes lot of time. > > This server is critical and can't be stop like that. > > I would like to upgrade to the latest versions. > > > > Can someone help me or guide me ? > > > > Thanks. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
