Mark, Nico, i went ahead with the 3rd version. Thank you! AZ
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Mark Stodola <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 02/07/2013 04:17 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> i need to set up samba. and apparently there was a new release 4 > already. > >> so i did yum search, but: > >> > >> samba4-4.0.0-23.alpha11.el6.x86_64 > >> [root@server ~]# rpm -ql samba4 > >> /usr/share/doc/samba4-4.0.0 > >> /usr/share/doc/samba4-4.0.0/COPYING > >> /usr/share/doc/samba4-4.0.0/WHATSNEW4.txt > >> > >> i'm not sure what exactly i need to install here? > >> > >> or should i just let it be and get samba 3 instead? My requirements are > >> very ancient - share printer and direcories. no need for active dir etc. > >> > >> Thank you > >> AZ > >> > > > > I would recommend removing the samba4 packages and install the samba > > packages (3.5.x) from the SL repo. If you need newer in the 3 series, > > sernet (http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.6/rhel/6/x86_64/) provides > > up-to-date builds designed to not conflict with the rest of your > > installation. > > Mine are, frankly, better for Red Hat or Scientific Linux: they're > more consistent with Red Hat structure, and they handle the detection > of native OS considerably more reliable,and in tested combination with > the "mock" tool for building RPM's, and with SL 6.3 and RHEL 6.3. > > Those tools are published at: > > https://github.com/nkadel/samba-3.6.10-srpm >
