[Samba] Using different samba4 version for DCs (4.13 and 4.15)

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Thu Dec 22 10:15:21 UTC 2022



On 22/12/2022 01:53, Nicolas Canonne via samba wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Actually :
> 
> dc1.smb.domain.tld     ubuntu20    samba4.13.17
> 
> fs1.smb.domain.tld    ubuntu20    samba4.13.17
> 
> Need a 2nd DC
> 
> For obvious (hardware) reasons, we can't install ubuntu20 on the new DC.
> 
> Is it safe to install ubuntu22 ( samba4.15.5 ) on the new DC (and 
> replicate sysvol of course) with DC1=samba4.13.17 ?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your time.
> 
> Nicolas
> 

There should be no problem in doing this, but I would urge you to 
upgrade Samba to 4.16.0 or above, a much later version of Heimdal is now 
used.

Rowland



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