[Samba] Best Pratice for installing samba package in production environment

[Helmut Hullen]

Hallo, Jules,

Du meintest am 19.04.16:

>>> Is it recommended to install the tarball or archive version of
>>> samba4 in production ?
>>
>>> Or what will be please the best practices?

>> "That depends!" ...
>>
>> Which distribution do you use?
>>
>> Do you talk about a first installation or about an update?
>>
>> Changing from 3.x to 4.2 or newer: seems to be no problem.

> The distribution is Debian linux 7.9.

> I am talking of a  fresh installation, and of course of it's update
> after.

Oh - that's really old.

Maybe the system makes a nearly complete upgrade to an actual Debian  
version if you try only to update Samba - no good idea.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut