[Samba] update samba help to download

[Rowland penny]

On 19/12/2019 04:24, Laura Steynes wrote:
> oh and no i found no mention on website of it. the persons name was 
> bjorn who mailed me. if he made this decisio or not i am not to know 
> but who did came up with this idea that has seen bunch of mirrors not 
> update needs to publicly explain their reasons for making them 
> useless, im no guru but ive not got the dumb, rsync ssl  which means 
> call external scripting and not like http to https, is pointless on 
> public repositories, when they are syncing public files that will no 
> doubt share not on ssl anyway.
> maybe give mirrors teh choice to use rsync ssl or rsync proper
>
> stupud, and that person makes this grief for its end users who rely on 
> ftp mirrors over the current unusable download.samba.org 
> <http://download.samba.org>
> obvious no thought was give to repercussions for their action
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 2:15 PM Laura Steynes 
> <laura.steynes72 at gmail.com <mailto:laura.steynes72 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     this is hopeless, ive given up trying to update samba, might as
>     well go back to win server this weekend unless someone can send me
>     a ftp mirrorlist or url to samba.org <http://samba.org> page with
>     this list
>
>     On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 8:29 PM Rowland penny via samba
>     <samba at lists.samba.org <mailto:samba at lists.samba.org>> wrote:
>
>         On 13/12/2019 10:24, Laura Steynes wrote:
>         > i have full speed from the mirror, it is samba.org
>         <http://samba.org> <http://samba.org>
>         > that is unusable to me
>         > the mirror is outdated by many version as you should know
>         look at 4.9.
>         > you see is only 15.
>         >
>         > I jest viewed email from someone at samba saying they
>         changed the
>         > rsync to ssl only,
>
>         OK, who was that ??
>
>         Why didn't you reply to the thread ?
>
>         Also, is this posted anywhere on our website and if not, why not ?
>
>         Rowland
>
>
>
>         > and the mirrors were told couple weeks before all around
>         that time so
>         > it seem many mirrors not bothered to change so will stay
>         outdated for
>         > ever maybe
>         >
>         > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 7:45 PM Rowland penny via samba
>         > <samba at lists.samba.org <mailto:samba at lists.samba.org>
>         <mailto:samba at lists.samba.org <mailto:samba at lists.samba.org>>>
>         wrote:
>         >
>         >     On 13/12/2019 09:27, Laura Steynes wrote:
>         >     > oops i forget, I only try, the ftp mirrors since www
>         mirrors
>         >     died long
>         >     > ago, they replies but is 2 versions outdated
>         >     > even mirrorservice.org <http://mirrorservice.org>
>         <http://mirrorservice.org>
>         >     <http://mirrorservice.org>
>         >
>         >     The mirrors have nothing really to do with us, but I
>         repeat, this
>         >     looks
>         >     like something to do with your end, running this:
>         >
>         >     sudo wget
>         >
>         ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.samba.org/stable/samba-4.11.2.tar.gz
>         >
>         >     Results ultimately in this:
>         >
>         >     samba-4.11.2.tar.gz 100%[=========================>] 17.66M
>         >     4.03MB/s    in 4.8s
>         >
>         >     If it is taking you a long time to download, then it is
>         likely to be
>         >     something between your keyboard and the mirror ;-)
>         >
>         >     Rowland Penny
>         >
>         >     Samba team member
>         >
>         >
>         >
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I am very sorry that you are having problems downloading Samba, but you 
are the only person that has ever complained, this could be down to 
doing something like using 'http' instead of 'https'.

Samba, as far as I am aware, has no official mirrors, so I would suggest 
that you download Samba from here:

https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/

If you are using Debian or Ubuntu 18.04, you can find packages here: 
http://apt.van-belle.nl/

If you are using Centos 7, you can find packages here: 
https://nova.polymtl.ca/~coyote/dist/samba/samba-4.11.4/

Getting abusive will get you no where, especially when the problem seems 
to be coming from your end.

Rowland