[Samba] Samba 2.2 or 3.0?

[Jeffrey D. Means]

Jason:

Number 1: first upgrade to a newer RedHat (rh) I personally like 8.0 and
am in the process of testing rh 9.  7.3 was a great stable system but
having the POSIX compliance in the kernel is a great thing, along with
ACL's which when utilizing samba is so nice.  It allows use of
user/group Access Control Lists similar to NTFS so that from a NT based
system you just add / delete users and groups from the ACL like you do
on NTFS.  Or you could run the SGI XFS file system by recompiling your
kernel to achieve the same results.  BTW they took out the ext3 ACL
support in rh 9 but rh 8.0 has ext3 ACL support unless you use red hat
network (rhn) to stay current on kernels.

Number 2: upgrade using rpm's whenever possible to stay within the rhn
upgrade path.  Rhn will make your life as an rh admin so much easier
when used properly i.e. testing for updates on a daily basis.  I am
guessing that when samba 3.0 goes release-ware there will be an
immediate rpm placed in the next major release of rh and possibly even
into a minor release as well.

---
Jeffrey D. Means
CIO for MeansPC
meaje at meanspc.com http://www.meanspc.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Williams [mailto:jwilliams at courtesymortgage.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 12:21 PM
To: meaje at meanspc.com
Subject: RE: [Samba] Samba 2.2 or 3.0?

Jeffrey,

Hello. I just happened to come across your email here. I just have one 
quick question for you regarding Samba 3.0.
Currently, I am setting up a Samba PDC with LDAP using samba 2.2.8a and 
OpenLDAP 2.0.27.
I've heard many good things about Samba 3.0, but management here will
not 
use anything that is in alpha or beta release.

My question is, when it comes time for me to upgrade to 3.0, do you have

any recommendations on the best way to go about upgrading? I'd like to
make 
it as seamless and easy as possible.

I should mention, i'm using RH 7.3.

I appreciate it.

Cheers,

Jason

At 12:15 PM 5/16/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>I have been using the cvs sources for samba 3.0 for 3 months now with
>out a problem and have really enjoyed some of the new functionality of
>3.0 like the group mappings and LDAP with 3.0 does work and is simple
to
>setup as well.  I would recommend using it especially if you are
>utilizing any win XP systems.
>
>---
>Jeffrey D. Means
>CIO for MeansPC
>meaje at meanspc.com http://www.meanspc.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org
>[mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of
>josh+samba at mookiemookie.net
>Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 12:06 PM
>To: samba at lists.samba.org
>Subject: [Samba] Samba 2.2 or 3.0?
>
>hi all,
>
>Here is the situation.  We are currently upgrading our infrastructure
to
>use LDAP as our authentication mechanism and I intend to also have
>Samba look at LDAP.  I had this working in a test case using 2.2 as a
>PDC awhile ago.
>
>Should I be using 3.0 or 2.2 for this implementation?  I realize that
>3.0
>is still quite alpha-quailty, but I've also read one or two interview
>with the developers stating that 3.0 is actually more stable than 2.2
>at this point and that they recommend using it.
>
>My main concern is that the LDAP schema will change again before the
>final 3.0 release - this is also what is making me wary of using 2.2,
>since the schemas are pretty different should we want to upgrade to 3.x
>in the future.
>
>Any advice is much appreciated.
>
>thanks,
>
>-jkl
>--
>To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
>instructions:  http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
>
>---
>Incoming mail is certified Virus Free.
>Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
>Version: 6.0.481 / Virus Database: 277 - Release Date: 5/13/2003
>
>
>---
>Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
>Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
>Version: 6.0.481 / Virus Database: 277 - Release Date: 5/13/2003
>
>
>--
>To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
>instructions:  http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba


---
Incoming mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.481 / Virus Database: 277 - Release Date: 5/13/2003
 

---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.481 / Virus Database: 277 - Release Date: 5/13/2003