[Samba] Switching to 64 bit version in existing DC server.

[Gregory Carter]

I took a cursory look at the toolchain and it looks like a lot of the tools
are written in python.

I had this assumption they were written in C.

So that certainly is a problem.  I would start from scratch and plan a new
server with something more modern.

I would recommend Fedora or Ubuntu as the packages are pretty good.

Time to brush up on the documentation too.

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Main_Page

I just recently went through decommissioning some of my Microsoft 2019 AD
servers and replacing them with Samba-AD.

The above documentation was pretty up to date. I googled for the rest.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM Virgo Pärna via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> On 07.03.2025 17:17, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> >
> > Not sure I fully understand this, surely if you are going to install a
> > 64bit version of Samba, it will be on a 64bit OS ?
> >
>
>         Since server has 32 bit Debian with amd64 kernel, I thought, that
> I
> could install samba under foreign amd64 architecture.  Unfortunately
> python dependencies stopped that. Even after replacing python with 64
> bit version, other architecture python any packages still wanted 32 bit
> version.
>
>         Reinstalling 64 bit server is not currently possible...
>
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