[Samba] Fwd: Samba broken after 4.8 upgrade

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2018-05-02 at 18:38 -0400, Tom Diehl via samba wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2018, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2 May 2018 11:14:36 -0400
> > Andrew Dumaresq via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > This may be a dumb question, but will the upgrade work in 4.8.1 now?
> > > when I follow the bug, it looks like it wasn't  included...
> > > 
> > 
> > Not a dumb question at all, but the fix for the upgrade bug never made
> > it to 4.8.1. It definitely will be in 4.8.2 (so I am told)
> 
> Is it safe to use 4.8.1 to build a new AD DC that going to join an existing
> windows 2008 domain or should I be using with 4.7.7?
> 
> The domain is currently windows only, no Samba.

Building a new DC and joining a DC, either from Samba or windows,
should be fine with 4.8.1, it was in-place upgrade that were most
impacted.  

Also, if anything fails it will fail early enough that you can debug
without major harm.

Andrew Bartlett

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