[Samba] Samba Upgrade

[Ninti Systems]

If you could find a spare server box somewhere, it is always nice to
have the luxury of building a test machine to trial a new system before
finally pulling the plug on a reliable known-to-work system.

AFAIK samba 3.0.4 is the latest stable version, most new distros now
include it (eg Slackware 10 which was released a couple of weeks back).
If you're going to upgrade, you may as well go for the latest stable
version as a general rule.

Michael Hall


On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 15:14, Nik Trevallyn-Jones wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I would really appreciate any words of wisdom people here could provide me.
> 
> I have Samba 2.2.7a, as shipped with RH 9.0, running on a server, supporting 
> about 25 W2k clients. The linux kernel is running in SMP mode to use the 
> Hyper-Threaded Pentium-4 CPU. I have tried to create the simplest SAMBA setup 
> possible, so have no LDAP, ACLS, etc. The 25 w2k clients are all architects 
> running CAD software and working on a major building design, so I cannot 
> afford down time, nor unexpected server behaviour. The 2.2.7a Samba has been 
> the epitome of reliability and efficiency.
> 
> However, I really need to enable recycle bins, to better recover accidentally 
> deleted files. I have tried to enable the recycle VFO in 2.2.7a, but with no 
> success, so I am considering upgrading to Samba 3.x.
> 
> My current plan is to shut down the SAMBA services, backup the /etc/samba 
> directory, uninstall samba 2.2.7, install SAMBA 3.x, copy my /etc/samba back 
> in, and restart samba.
> 
> Q: Is there any advice that people would offer me on this?
> 
> Q: Is there a particular version of Samba that I should upgrade to in 
> preference to others?
> 
> Q: Is there a simple HOW-TO on the recycle-bin VFO for 2.2.7?
> 
> Q: Are there any additional procedures I should employ in the upgrade?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any and all advice.
> 
> Cheers!
> Nik
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