[Samba] Upgrade from 3.0.4 to 3.4.5 gotchas?

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Joe <joe at freakyacres.com> wrote:
> On 1/25/2010 4:47 PM, John Drescher wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> So is there any way to run the new version of testparm before the
> actual installation?
>
Possibly by running ldconfig for the folder that contains  libtalloc.so.1

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John M. Drescher