samba - Jan 2015 - Installing Samba 3

Hi folks,

Still trying to get security = share working, which it appears means I need to 
install Samba 3. As the server is pretty much goverened by this, I can 
install whatever linux is required, although I know Fedora, so CentOS etc is 
possible.

I've just tried uninstalling Samba 4 from my F20 laptop to play with Samba
3.
Can someone explain to me why to remove Samba I also have to remove 166 
dependencies including kwalletmanager, kmail and kdeartwork-screensavers?????

Hi Gary,
Samba 3 will not be developed / supported any longer when Samba 4.2 is 
released (which means soon).
Although, If you use RHEL then the Samba 3 will be supported by RH till 
RHEL 6 reach EOL (at least that's what they say now).

I dont know your goal, but can't it be solved with other type of 
security? Samba 4 support new SMB2 and SMB3 protocols compatible with 
new windows 7,8 - the file transfer speeds will be badly affected on 
newer windows client types.

As for uninstalling the Samba - just use 'yum' to list packages and then
"rpm -e --nodeps".

cheers
-- 
*Karel Lang*
*Unix/Linux Administration*
lang at afd.cz | +420 731 13 40 40
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On 01/26/2015 03:14 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Still trying to get security = share working, which it appears means I need
to
> install Samba 3. As the server is pretty much goverened by this, I can
> install whatever linux is required, although I know Fedora, so CentOS etc
is
> possible.
>
> I've just tried uninstalling Samba 4 from my F20 laptop to play with
Samba 3.
> Can someone explain to me why to remove Samba I also have to remove 166
> dependencies including kwalletmanager, kmail and
kdeartwork-screensavers?????
>

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 02:14:20PM +0000, Gary Stainburn
wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Still trying to get security = share working, which it appears means I need
to
> install Samba 3. As the server is pretty much goverened by this, I can 
You don't need Samba3.x, 4.x is no different in terms of
security levels.

Replacement for share level security:

security = user
map to guest = Bad Password

On Tuesday 27 January 2015 16:30:18 Jeremy Allison
wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 02:14:20PM +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Still trying to get security = share working, which it appears means I
> > need to install Samba 3. As the server is pretty much goverened by
this,
> > I can
>
> You don't need Samba3.x, 4.x is no different in terms of
> security levels.
>
> Replacement for share level security:
>
> security = user
> map to guest = Bad Password
Jeremy,

With CentOS 6.3 and Samba 3.6.23 I now have access to "security =
share" which
is what I wanted.

Unfortunately, it still doesn't work. When I try to connect to the new
server
using the WinXP and Win7 clients that are using the old server they just fail 
to connect.

I understand that the work-around you quote is how people are getting round 
the fact that share security doesn't work any more. However, I can't use
that
method as I need to retain password protection.

Gary