[Samba] Upgrade from 3.0.4 to 3.4.5 gotchas?

[Michael Wood]

2010/1/25 John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Joe <joe at freakyacres.com> wrote:
>> I'm about to install 3.4.5 over 3.0.4 on an old FreeBSD 5.2.1 server from
>> source.  The server is backed up to tape.
>>
>> Could I make life easier by backing up some files by hand to another
>> directory?
>>
>> In theory should "make install" be all I have to do?  (yes I ran configure
>> and make)
>>
>> Will the old smb.conf need modified?
>>
>
> Yes definitely. You are going ahead 6 years of development.
>
> Normally you are supposed to take a look at the change logs between
> versions to determine what parameters have been changed or removed but
> that would be very painful for that type of move.
>
> I would run
>
> testparm
>
> before starting samba and fix any thing it complains about.

Would it also help to run "testparm -sv" with the old version and then
again after the upgrade to see what defaults have changed?  Or would
there be too many differences?

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>