[Samba] Samba 3.0.4 and kerberos 1.3.x

[Paul Gienger]

First off, spamming the list probably won't get you any help any 
quicker, or in this particular case, any more detailed.

Try perhaps downloading the source rpm from Fedora Core 1 and rebuild 
it.  Then upgrade the rpm in place.

Andrey wrote:

>Hi All, 
>
>I've been using samba 2.2.8a running on RedHat 9 as a PDC for almost a year by 
>now. Everything works great 
>even though it required some time to configure everything properly. 
>
>Our company decided to move to Active Directory running on Win2003 server.... 
>I want to leave Samba as our file server, so I plan to use Samba 3.0.4 as a 
>domain member server. 
>
>I got one problem, though :-( 
>It is said in the John Terpstra's book, that it is required to use kerberos 1.3.
>x to get Samba talking
>to Active Directory properly.
>RedHat 9 comes with kerberos version 1.2.7 and there's no way to remove/
>reinstall/upgrade it via RPM 
>without breaking dependencies. Actually, if you use -nodeps switch to install, 
>let's say, kerberos 1.3.1, it 
>will crash you system. 
>
>The only way I see is to install kerberos from sources (tarballs). However, I 
>don't know what will happen
>to the system, if I install a tarball over existing rpm installation. As far as 
>I know, that's highly not recommended. 
>
>Is there anybody who had managed to install Kerveros 1.3.x on Redhat 8/9 and 
>proved it worked properly? 
>I would really appreciate if you give me some clue how to do that. 
>
>Thanks a lot. 
>
>Andrey. 
>
>
>  
>

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