[Samba] binaries >= 3.3.4 for fedora core 3

jo / ak jo at akweb.de
Fri Nov 27 08:24:52 MST 2009


Hi Moray,

Since we're in a pretty small intranet environment I chose to postpone  
the OS upgrade. Thanks to the pointer to sernet - they have  
centos/rhel 3/4/5 releases. Which one could be compatible to Fedora  
Core 3?

Cheers, Jo


Am Fr, 27 Nov 2009 schrieb Moray Henderson <Moray.Henderson at ict-software.org>:

> Jo wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using Samba (currently samba-3.0.10-1.fc3) in an intranet
>> environment under Fedora Core 3. I learned that I have to upgrade to
>> Samba 3.3.4 or higher in order to join new Windows 7 clients to the
>> domain.
>>
>> Hints to binaries for this setting would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers, Jo
>
> That's a pretty old Fedora you have there.  A friend recently had their
> server severely compromised because it was running an old kernel: an
> attacker got in to an ordinary user account with a bad password, then
> used a kernel exploit (http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18874/discuss)
> to become root.
>
> First I'd recommend you upgrade your OS.  Fedora 12 comes with Samba
> 3.4.2; SerNet produce Samba binaries for other major releases at
> ftp://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/recent/.
>
>
> Moray.
> "To err is human.  To purr, feline"
>
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