[Samba] Upgrade Samba 4.12.6 to latest stable version.

[Elias Pereira]

Nice!!!

I thought it might be a physical server.

I also have my ADs and fileserver virtualized and do it this way. Easier,
right! :D

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 12:50 PM Daniel Lopes de Carvalho <
daniel at cepetro.unicamp.br> wrote:

> Hi Elias,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Louis's work is awesome. Many thanks to him!
>
> I forgot to mention that my servers are virtualized and I will take a
> snapshot from them before updating. Then I thought about skipping the step
> to create a new server. If something goes wrong, I'll revert back the
> snapshot.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 11:17 AM Elias Pereira via samba <
> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> hello,
>>
>> I have been using Louis' repo for a long time and have never had any
>> problems.
>>
>> A good practice you can do is:
>>
>> - configure a new machine
>> - join this new machine to the existing AD
>> - test everything
>> - transfer the FSMO roles to the new machine
>>
>> After that you can update the old ones and if any errors occur you have
>> the
>> new machine intact.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 10:58 AM Daniel Lopes de Carvalho via samba <
>> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have two (Debian Buster 10.5) Samba4 (4.12.6) working as my domain
>> > controllers and I am wondering to upgrade them to the latest stable
>> Debian
>> > and Samba 4.
>> >
>> > I have being using Van Belle's repo (http://apt.van-belle.nl/debian
>> > buster-samba412 <http://apt.van-belle.nl/debianbuster-samba412>). I
>> have
>> > read the notes about upgrades, read the
>> >
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_Features_added/changed_(by_release)
>> > and everything seems to be in order.
>> >
>> > I would like to know if there is any tips or advice or can I just point
>> to
>> > Van Belle's repo (deb http://apt.van-belle.nl/debian buster-samba414)
>> and
>> > execute the apt update and apt upgrade command.
>> >
>> > My smb.conf is very basic with the default parameters.
>> >
>> > Thanks and best regards.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Daniel Lopes de Carvalho
>> > daniel at cepetro.unicamp.br
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Elias Pereira