[Samba] Samba 4.1 on CentOS 7

Sketch smblist at rednsx.org
Tue Mar 10 08:58:13 MDT 2015


On Mon, 9 Mar 2015, TI wrote:

> I have a samba 4.0.3 running in a CentOS 6.4 and I want to install samba 4.1 in a new CentOS 7 server.
>
> Should I use the samba-4.1 rpm provided by CentOS or download, compile and install it from samba repositories? Which is better and why?

It sounds like you have already been convinced, but I just wanted to add 
that the samba packages provided by CentOS do not support acting as a 
domain controller, so you must use 3rd party packages such as Sernet, or 
build it yourself.


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