[Samba] Updating to a newer version of Samba

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 2021-11-15 at 23:32 +0000, kevin wallace via samba wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> 
> I am taking over management of several CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 servers
> that were configured long before my time with no documentation left
> behind.  They are running Samba 3.6.23 and 4.9.1 respectively.  Is it
> possible to upgrade to the latest 4.15.x series?  Can you point me in
> the direction of a document with a page to do so?


Both Centos 6 and Samba 3.6.23 are EOL, so you need to upgrade Centos 6
first. After that, there is Sernet:
https://samba.plus/

There are a few others, but as I do not use any of the red-hat based
distros, I do not remember them (sorry).

Rowland