[Samba] Stable Samba for AIX5.1

William Jojo w.jojo at hvcc.edu
Fri Dec 5 13:23:20 GMT 2008



---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 06:21:06 +0100
>From: "Urs Golla" <urs.golla at gmail.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Samba] Stable Samba for AIX5.1  
>To: "William Jojo" <w.jojo at hvcc.edu>
>Cc: "Ray, Tito" <titoray at tycoint.com>,samba at lists.samba.org
>
>   You could be right about that... But it is worth going to 5.3 anyway.
>   particularly if you plan to use group names with more than 9 (8+'\n')
>   characters.
>

The base pware code was compiled on 5.2 and the pware53 code was compiled on 5.3. They likely won't run on 5.1 due to missing symbols in /unix and other libraries.

Also, long usernames were not supported in 5.3 until TL-07 and are supported completely in 6.1.

For the record, AIX 4.3.3 was dropped in 12/2003, 5.1 was dropped in 4/2006 and 5.2 will be dropped by IBM in 4/2009. That leaves 5.3 and 6.1 as the only real viable choces. If IBM follows the three year cycle implied by the above, this means 5.3 will likely be dropped in 2012, but I've seen no such official announcement of any kind.

I know this didn't really help, just meant to clarify...


Cheers,
Bill


>   On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:51 AM, William Jojo <w.jojo at hvcc.edu> wrote:
>
>     ---- Original message ----
>     >Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 17:44:05 +0100
>     >From: "Urs Golla" <urs.golla at gmail.com>
>     >Subject: Re: [Samba] Stable Samba for AIX5.1
>     >To: "Ray, Tito" <titoray at tycoint.com>
>     >Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
>     >
>     >Hi
>     >
>     >I use pware.samba-3.0.23d on AIX 5.3. It works very well for me and
>     I am
>     >almost sure I have used it already on 5.1.
>     >
>
>     Hmmm, I do not think that will run on 5.1. The latest stable code
>     for AIX 5.3/6.1 is at:
>
>     http://pware.hvcc.edu/
>
>     Cheers,
>     Bill
>
>     >cheers
>     >
>     >On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Ray, Tito <titoray at tycoint.com>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >> Hello,
>     >> I need to upgrade Samba 2.2.2 to a stable Samba version
>     compatible with
>     >> AIX5.1 . Need to know the samba version I need to download and
>     apply.
>     >>
>     >> Tito
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