[Samba] Samba 3.4 on Centos 5.3

[Kasper Sacharias Eenberg]

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 08:57 +0200, Niklas Saers wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> 
> I'm running a vanilla CentOS 5.3 server, and yum there has Samba  
> 3.0.33. What's the recommended way to install Samba 3.4 as an upgrade  
> over 3.0.33? Just ./configure && make && sudo make install ?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 	Nik

In my humble opinion it's wise to choose the package from your
distribution.

Unless you have the time to maintain/upgrade it yourself.
They are in the repo because they are stable (That's how it works in
debian anyways).
And i do believe CentOS takes care of security patches.

With regards,
Kasper