[Samba] Re: Upgrading to Samba 2.2.7

[Brent Torrenga]

If you have installed previously with the source, can yo upgrade by simply
using the pre-compiled binaries like you mentioned?

--Brent



"John H Terpstra" <jht at samba.org> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.33.0211251822480.27773-100000 at dp.samba.org...
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Carl Ambroise wrote:
>
> > Hi:
> >
> > I am the system admin at my company.  We are running Samba 2.2.2 and I
> > have been made aware of security issue for 2.2.2 - 2.2.6.
> >
> > I went to your web site, found this page:
> > http://au1.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.7.html
> >
> > but does not speak on upgrading from an earlier version.  Found this
> > page "Unofficial How To" , the first part of which seems to describe
> > upgrading: http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html
> >
> > Can you direct me to a location that has instructions specifically on
> > upgrading to 2.2.7.
>
> You do not give enough information. What OS?
>
> If you are running Linux then we have ready to install binary packages for
> the most common Linux OS's. You could download the ready to install
> package, eg: if RPM based: rpm -Uvh samba-2.2.7....
> and restart Samba and you are ready to go.
>
> If your OS is one of those for which we do not have a binary package, then
> you may have to roll your own binaries, in that case, we need more
> information if you really want help. Information needed includes:
>
> 1. What OS?
> 2. If commercial Unix, do you have the C compiler installed?
> 3. Where is samba installed now? Is it under /usr/local/samba?
>
> >
> > Also do I need to stop Samba first, install patch and then restart?
>
> Well, that depends on the above. You could just download our patches, but
> given that you need to move from 2.2.2 to 2.2.7 I'd suggest that
> downloading the whole 2.2.7 tarball is probably easier.
>
> - John T.
>
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