samba - Sep 2004 - which version to install/???

Hello all

now that I have finally got CyrusSASL to authenticate....

next up is installing Samba

I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and have the options in the ports tree of
2.2.11 
and
3.0.6

In my test server intall I used 2.2.8 with success, and it is still 
running at home on a P166.... as a PDC

but here at work it must work for mostly Win98SE machines, plus a 
couple of Win2000 and XP laptops.  And in the future we'll have more 
W2k and XP of course.  22 seats this month, more in the future.
I will be using disk quotas if that makes any difference, and may use 
recycle bins.

I'm seeing a lot of comment here on problems with the 3 series Samba 
so I'm wondering if I should use it or wait for the 3.1 series (-:

Thanks for all advice


--
       DA Fo rsyth            Network Supervisor
Principal Technical Officer  -- Institute for Water Research
http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/

On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 01:49, DA Forsyth wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> now that I have finally got CyrusSASL to authenticate....
> 
> next up is installing Samba
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and have the options in the ports tree of
> 2.2.11 
> and
> 3.0.6
Samba 2.2 is end-of-life very shortly.  This means not even security
updates, and it has been out of maintenance for functionality updates
for a long time.
> I'm seeing a lot of comment here on problems with the 3 series Samba 
> so I'm wondering if I should use it or wait for the 3.1 series (-:
The general impression I get about Samba 3.0 is that it has a lot of
users, not that most users have problems.  It has been one of our most
successful releases in that respect.  Samba 3.1, which will become Samba
3.2 will not be radically different in that respect, just a continuing
evolution from this point.  

Andrew Bartlett
-- 
Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet@samba.org
Authentication Developer, Samba Team            http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet@hawkerc.net
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On 14 Sep 2004 , DA Forsyth entreated about
 "[Samba] which version to install/???":

} I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and have the options in the ports tree of
} 2.2.11 and 3.0.6

and now 3.0.7

thanks Andrew and Craig, 3.x it will be....


--
       DA Fo rsyth            Network Supervisor
Principal Technical Officer  -- Institute for Water Research
http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/