[Samba] SCO OpenServer

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:31 AM, L.P.H. van Belle <belle at bazuin.nl> wrote:
> If you upgrade to sco 5.0.7, you get samba 3.0.20
> 5.0.6 had samba 3.0.14. so im wondering why your using samba 2.2..
> samba 3.0x. is on the supplimental discs.
>
> Gr.
>
> Louis

Been there, done that. Samba 2.2 was built into the base release,
supplements weren't always stable or well supported.

OpenServer 5.0.7, the final release before the disastrous and overall
incompatible upgrade to version 6, was released over 12 years ago. I
took a look some years ago at upgrading OpenServer 5 release systems
to OpenServer 6, and I couldn't keep any of the relevant in house
software working *anyway*, and it was really expensive. It made better
sense to move away from a vendor that was in legal and fiscal and
technological ruin. (Check the old www.groklaw.net archives, it was a
fascinating destruction of a previously robust company and
technologies.)

So it was much easier to simply upgrade to an RHEL release and migrate
the in house software, and keep an old OpenServer system or two alive
as needed to ensure access to old data by running virtual machine on
VMware. VMware works well with 5.0.7, or you can find my old notes on
Google about how to virtualize some of the older releases.

You can, in theory, try to build up the tool chain from Skunkware
published tools at ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/osr5 to get a more
recent Samba version, but I don't recommend it. I went through that
for OpenSSH, and it was really non-pretty. Rather, if possible, I'd
look at using a more modern Linux or possibly OpenBSD as a Samba
server, if needed, and use any remaining OpenServer hosts only as
clients, preferably as NFS clients since that is better supported by
OpenServer.