[Samba] Upgrade samba from 3.28 to 3.29 to fix winbind issue.

Adam Williams awilliam at mdah.state.ms.us
Wed Feb 11 18:07:48 GMT 2009


tar -zxvf samba-3.0.33.tar.gz
cd samba-3.0.33/packaging/RHEL/
sh makerpms.sh

should build the RPMs also.

Toby Bluhm wrote:
> Turner, Justin H Contractor wrote:
>> How do you upgrade samba from 3.0.28 to 3.0.29 to fix winbind issue? My
>> OS is CentOS 4.5. I haven't been able to find a RPM above 3.0.28. for
>
> samba built from src will put stuff in places different from where an 
> rpm package will put them - probably why it didn't work as an upgrade 
> to a working RH type server for you.
>
> I needed 3.0.33 to fix a SolidWorks problem, so I did the following 
> for WhiteboxLinux 4. I expect if it's changed where needed, should 
> work for Centos 4.
>
> rpm -ihv samba-3.0.25b-1.el4_6.4.src.rpm
>
> Put samba-3.0.33.tar.gz in /usr/src/whitebox/SOURCES/
> Remove the old /usr/src/whitebox/SOURCES/samba-3.0.25b.tar.gz
> Remove the /usr/src/whitebox/SOURCES/*.patch files
> Edit /usr/src/whitebox/SPECS/samba.spec:
>
> old: Version: 3.0.25b
> old: Release: 1%{dist}.4
>
> new: Version: 3.0.33
> new: Release: 1.4
>
> remove: all lines with "Patch"
> remove: all lines with "%patch"
> remove: "--with-mmap \"
> remove: "--without-smbwrapper \"
> remove: "%doc docs/REVISION docs/Samba3-ByExample.pdf 
> docs/Samba3-Developers-Guide.pdf"
>
> rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/whitebox/SPECS/samba.spec
> rpm -Uhv /usr/src/whitebox/RPMS/i386/samba*3.0.33-1.4.i386.rpm
> service smb stop
> service smb start
>
> I found the 
> /usr/src/whitebox/BUILD/samba-3.0.33/packaging/RHEL/samba.spec file 
> from the 3.0.33 tarball later on, but since my way was already working 
> for me, I didn't bother trying it out.
>
>
> As always, YMMV.
>
>


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