[Samba] Is Samba 3 stable for Mandrake 9.2?

[Buchan Milne]

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> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:49:54 -0600
> From: "Eric Geater 11/18/03" <egeater at mscoinc.com>
> Subject: [Samba] Is Samba 3 stable for Mandrake 9.2?
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> Not to be the annoying child, but I have found myself uniquely annoyed
> that I can't update RPMs that include Samba 3, and I'm not certain if
> that's because it's even ready for Mandrake 9.2.  Does anyone have a
> bead on this?  Should I just go back to 2.2.8 and wait for the stable,
> or can someone point out a URL that has a stable 3.0 on it?

OK, let's just cover the samba issue on Mandrake 9.2 quickly.

1)samba-3.0.0 final was not available before main for 9.2 froze, so we
have 2.2.8a in main, and samba3-3.0.0 in contrib (contrib freezes much
later than main), which are parallel installable. The client tools use
alternatives, so if you have only samba3-client, smbclient will point to
smbclient3. One reason for this is so that you can also easily migrate
samba versions (and just 'service smb stop;service smb3 start;chkconfig
smb off;chkconfig smb3 on' once you are done).

2)There were a number of small issues with 3.0.0, you may want to wait
for 3.0.1 for production.

3)There are a number of options available when you rebuild the SRPM,
such as you can make it replace the samba-2.2.x RPMS if you so wish, by
rebuilding with the "--with system" option:

$ rpm --rebuild --with system samba3-3.0.0-2mdk.src.rpm

Most of these issues are covered in the README file in the Mandrake
directory on the mirrors.

You can also find samba packages built with different options on my site
(ie http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/9.2).

Regards,
Buchan

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