[Samba] Best way to Upgrade Samba 3.014a

[Gary Dale]

Your best bet, if you are running a Debian/Sarge server (likely given 
the Samba version you quoted), is to just apply the security updates 
that Debian puts on their site.

Put
  deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free
in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, then
  apt-get update
  apt-get dist-upgrade
from time to time to keep up with security patches.

This won't get you from 3.0.14a however.

If you want to upgrade to a more recent version, you need to add an 
"etch" repository (testing) to your sources.list. In this case, select a 
debian site near you. Make sure that it says etch or testing (change it 
from sarge or stable if you have to), do an
  apt-get update
  apt-get install samba
and you should be OK.

Please note: I do NOT endorse mixing Debian stable and testing on a 
server. It makes keeping up with security updates tricky. Nor do I 
recommend upgrading a server to testing/etch at this point, although you 
may like running testing/etch on a workstation (a year's worth of 
updated packages).

If you want to mix stable and testing, comment out the etch repository 
except when you want to update Samba. And don't forget to run apt-get 
update afterwards. You do not want to upgrade your server to Debian/Testing!


daniel arjona wrote:

>I installed Samba using the ISO disks included in the Debian installers. I
>want to upgrade Samba any way.  Do you have any suggestion?
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>Daniel Arjona
>Net Admin
>GENCO Distribution Systems
>http://www.genco.com/
>8740 Robert Fulton Dr
>Columbia, MD 21046
>Ph: 410-872-0875 X12
>Fax: 410-872-0877
>arjonad at genco.com
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>                      Dennis B. Hopp                                                                                                   
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>On Wed, 10 May 2006 13:20:32 -0400, daniel arjona <arjonad at genco.com>
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>>Hello,
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>>I have Samba  3.014a-Debian in a server Debian 3.1 Release 1 Sarge.  The
>>performance is pretty poor.
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>>My  LAN is running at 100mbits/sec. So even at 4 feet from the server I'm
>>getting slow responses on my windoze 2000 pro computer from samba. It
>>takes
>>an eternity to copy files from one place to the other.  Also, I have
>>several error messages and files corruption.
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>Samba may not be completely to blame.  A little more information would be
>helpful.  How many users does this server handle?  How many of those users
>are concurrent?  What type of files are generally stored (small text files,
>office documents, large multimedia files, etc.)?  What are the server specs
>(CPU, RAM, Disks)?  Are the Disks Mirrored, RAID 5, etc.?  What is the
>server sitting at CPU/Memory usage wise?
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>>Could anybody tell me how to upgrade Samba?  I do not want to have new
>>issues on my server.  Give me the best way to do it?
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>Did you compile samba by hand or did you use a .deb pkg?  I would backup
>the configs and the /usr/lib/samba directory first.  If you compiled it by
>hand, just grab the new source, recompile it (with the same options you
>used the first time) and put the binaries in the appropriate location.  If
>you use a .deb pkg, I would imagine you can use an update version and just
>update the package.
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>--Dennis
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