[olug] samba upgrade

[Quinn Coldiron]

I'm running the defaults on 10 production Samba servers here at the
hospital.  I have one on RH Linux and 9 on AIX.

Quinn


On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 08:52, roger schmeits wrote:
> What is the standard for compile options???
> Are the defaults good enough for most people?
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> 
> On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 08:46, Quinn Coldiron wrote:
> > Save your /etc/smb.conf config file.
> > Remove ALL of the RPM's
> > The source tar file has everything you need so compile and install it. 
> > By default it goes to /usr/local/samba.  The new location for the config
> > file will be /usr/local/samba/lib.  You should be able to drop your old
> > config file in that location.
> > 
> > Upgrading to a new tar distribution later is easy.  Just make a backup
> > of the /usr/local/samba directory.  Delete the directory and compile the
> > new one.
> > 
> > Quinn
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 08:39, roger schmeits wrote:
> > > 
> > > With the latest release of samba would like to move from version 2.21a-4
> > > to 2.2.6. How does one move from a rpm based samba to tar.gz? In other
> > > words how do I upgrade from samba-2.2.1a-4.rpm to samba-2.2.6.tar.gz. 
> > > 
> > > Do I remove samba : rpm -e samba?
> > > 
> > > And what do I do with the other samba rpm packages:
> > > samba-client-2.2.1a-4 & samba-common-2.2.1a-4? Are they included with
> > > the tar package?
> > > 
> > > Can I assume I remove the rpm packages (all of them) and compile from
> > > source? And how do I install a new version of samba when the next
> > > release comes out?? with a source package you can't do a rpm -e.
> > > 
> > > sorry for all the questions just trying to get a handle on it.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Using RH7.2. Thanks.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Roger
> > > 
> > > 
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> > Why should applications be any different?
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> > Quinn P. Coldiron
> > Cerner Technical Coordinator
> > Nebraska Methodist Hospital
> > 402-354-1619
> > qcoldir at nmhs.org
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You don't "install" web pages; you simply visit them.
Why should applications be any different?

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Quinn P. Coldiron
Cerner Technical Coordinator
Nebraska Methodist Hospital
402-354-1619
qcoldir at nmhs.org