[Samba] Upgrade from 3.0.4 to 3.4.5 gotchas?

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Joe <joe at freakyacres.com> wrote:
> On 1/25/2010 1:53 PM, John Drescher wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> John
>>
>
> I didn't make install yet but ran testparm from the compile directory.
>
> It complains...
>
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libtalloc.so.1" not found
>
> So I expect samba may have trouble starting also.  Any tips?


libtalloc.so.1 is part of samba

John