[Samba] Some questions about Samba as a DC.

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Thu Apr 29 08:52:09 UTC 2021


On 29/04/2021 09:38, Jason Long via samba wrote:
> Thank you.
> Thus, the only difference between the Samba and Samba+ is that the Samba+ use the last version of Samba and updating automatically?


No, Samba is an open source project that provides the code and Samba+ 
uses the code to provide uptodate packages for various distro's

> Why some Linux Distro don't think about provide an up to date Samba package?


Most distro's take the code available at their release time and package 
it for that release version. Debian buster supplies Samba 4.9.5 , but 
whilst it it says it is 4.9.5 , it will have had various security & 
bugfixes backported to it. If you want a distro that has uptodate 
packages, you will need to use a 'rolling release' distro.

Rowland





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