samba - Jan 2010 - Upgrade from 3.0.4 to 3.4.5 gotchas?

I'm about to install 3.4.5 over 3.0.4 on an old FreeBSD 5.2.1 server from
source.  The server is backed up to tape.

Could I make life easier by backing up some files by hand to another directory?

In theory should "make install" be all I have to do?  (yes I ran
configure and make)

Will the old smb.conf need modified?

Anything else to watch out for?

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Joe <joe at freakyacres.com>
wrote:
> I'm about to install 3.4.5 over 3.0.4 on an old FreeBSD 5.2.1 server
from
> source. ?The server is backed up to tape.
>
> Could I make life easier by backing up some files by hand to another
> directory?
>
> In theory should "make install" be all I have to do? ?(yes I ran
configure
> and make)
>
> Will the old smb.conf need modified?
>
Yes definitely. You are going ahead 6 years of development.

Normally you are supposed to take a look at the change logs between
versions to determine what parameters have been changed or removed but
that would be very painful for that type of move.

I would run

testparm

before starting samba and fix any thing it complains about.

John