samba - Jul 2004 - Samba Upgrade

Hi Folks,

I would really appreciate any words of wisdom people here could provide me.

I have Samba 2.2.7a, as shipped with RH 9.0, running on a server, supporting 
about 25 W2k clients. The linux kernel is running in SMP mode to use the 
Hyper-Threaded Pentium-4 CPU. I have tried to create the simplest SAMBA setup 
possible, so have no LDAP, ACLS, etc. The 25 w2k clients are all architects 
running CAD software and working on a major building design, so I cannot 
afford down time, nor unexpected server behaviour. The 2.2.7a Samba has been 
the epitome of reliability and efficiency.

However, I really need to enable recycle bins, to better recover accidentally 
deleted files. I have tried to enable the recycle VFO in 2.2.7a, but with no 
success, so I am considering upgrading to Samba 3.x.

My current plan is to shut down the SAMBA services, backup the /etc/samba 
directory, uninstall samba 2.2.7, install SAMBA 3.x, copy my /etc/samba back 
in, and restart samba.

Q: Is there any advice that people would offer me on this?

Q: Is there a particular version of Samba that I should upgrade to in 
preference to others?

Q: Is there a simple HOW-TO on the recycle-bin VFO for 2.2.7?

Q: Are there any additional procedures I should employ in the upgrade?

Thanks in advance for any and all advice.

Cheers!
Nik

If you could find a spare server box somewhere, it is always nice to
have the luxury of building a test machine to trial a new system before
finally pulling the plug on a reliable known-to-work system.

AFAIK samba 3.0.4 is the latest stable version, most new distros now
include it (eg Slackware 10 which was released a couple of weeks back).
If you're going to upgrade, you may as well go for the latest stable
version as a general rule.

Michael Hall


On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 15:14, Nik Trevallyn-Jones wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I would really appreciate any words of wisdom people here could provide me.
> 
> I have Samba 2.2.7a, as shipped with RH 9.0, running on a server,
supporting
> about 25 W2k clients. The linux kernel is running in SMP mode to use the 
> Hyper-Threaded Pentium-4 CPU. I have tried to create the simplest SAMBA
setup
> possible, so have no LDAP, ACLS, etc. The 25 w2k clients are all architects
> running CAD software and working on a major building design, so I cannot 
> afford down time, nor unexpected server behaviour. The 2.2.7a Samba has
been
> the epitome of reliability and efficiency.
> 
> However, I really need to enable recycle bins, to better recover
accidentally
> deleted files. I have tried to enable the recycle VFO in 2.2.7a, but with
no
> success, so I am considering upgrading to Samba 3.x.
> 
> My current plan is to shut down the SAMBA services, backup the /etc/samba 
> directory, uninstall samba 2.2.7, install SAMBA 3.x, copy my /etc/samba
back
> in, and restart samba.
> 
> Q: Is there any advice that people would offer me on this?
> 
> Q: Is there a particular version of Samba that I should upgrade to in 
> preference to others?
> 
> Q: Is there a simple HOW-TO on the recycle-bin VFO for 2.2.7?
> 
> Q: Are there any additional procedures I should employ in the upgrade?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any and all advice.
> 
> Cheers!
> Nik
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I noticed v 3.05 came out with some security fixes. I'm still using v
3.0.0 and it seems to work just fine. I've never done an upgrade on Samba
which I'd like to do by the end of the summer. I've already upgraded the
backend support, OpenLDAP and Berkeley DB.

What do I need to backup before compiling and installing a new version
besides smb.conf? All my accounts are in LDAP.

Kent N