samba - Nov 2000 - Upgrading Samba 2.0.3 to 2.0.7 - Solaris 2.6

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Oswaldir Brisola Lantyer wrote:
>  We have Samba 2... installed in our machine with solaris 2.6. We have the
> intetion to upgrade it to Samba 2.0.7.
> In adition, this machine is in use and we can't stop it for long.
Concerning
> it  we have those questions as follow :
I did in, also on a Solaris 2.6 system, by, after building and testing on
a test machine, I installed it over the running samba deamons (they get
moved to .old by the installer) and then cycling the server.  Total down
time for Samba was .5 sec.

One thing, make SURE you have tested both the binaries (don't rebuild
between test and production) and the config, take the production config
and change only the netbios name to test with.  You may find some
addations you need, or want, to make to the config when you put 2.0.7 in.

Luck.
 

-- 
David A. Smith          dasb@eci.esys.com
Contract Systems Administrator
at Raytheon Systems, St. Petersburg, FL
727-302-3202            727-302-3408 fax

Hi everybody.

 We have Samba 2... installed in our machine with solaris 2.6. We have the
intetion to upgrade it to Samba 2.0.7.
In adition, this machine is in use and we can't stop it for long. Concerning
it  we have those questions as follow :


        - Is it a simple task?
        - Where can I get some information or tips?
        - What do I have to concern about?
        - Does someone have any advises?

Thanks in advance for your time and attention.

++

  Oswaldir Brisola Lantyer
  SUTEC
  S/A Correio Braziliense
  Brasilia - DF - Brasil
  http://www.correioweb.com.br/
  mailto:lantyer@cbdata.com.br
  ICQ:9721387

Oswaldir

I have not done an upgrade, but have installed Samba 2.0.7 under Solaris
2.6.  It was all pretty straightforward.  We followed UNIX_INSTALL.txt and
NTDOMAIN.txt in the docs directory to set up our machine purely as a file
server in an NT domain.  Until you type 'make install' nothing gets in
installed.  The last stage is pretty quick.  Clearly you should back up the
old version first in case you get problems and also to safeguard your
existing configuration file.

The only minor problems we have 2.0.7 I think may apply to all releases:
	share names limited to 12 characters
	In Windows Explorer double clicking on the folder share level does
not show the folder as open, but shows the contents.
	Also if you copy files to the folder at share level you have to do a
manual refresh.  
	Once you descend down the tree these problems do not occur.

David Evans-Roberts
> Message: 15
> From: "Oswaldir Brisola Lantyer" <lantyer@cbdata.com.br>
> To: "Lista SAMBA" <samba@us5.samba.org>
> Subject: Upgrading Samba 2.0.3 to 2.0.7 - Solaris 2.6
> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:22:38 -0300
> 
>     Hi everybody.
> 
>  We have Samba 2... installed in our machine with solaris 
> 2.6. We have the
> intetion to upgrade it to Samba 2.0.7.
> In adition, this machine is in use and we can't stop it for 
> long. Concerning
> it  we have those questions as follow :
> 
> 
>         - Is it a simple task?
>         - Where can I get some information or tips?
>         - What do I have to concern about?
>         - Does someone have any advises?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your time and attention.
> 
> ++
> 
>   Oswaldir Brisola Lantyer
>   SUTEC
>   S/A Correio Braziliense
>   Brasilia - DF - Brasil
>   http://www.correioweb.com.br/
>   mailto:lantyer@cbdata.com.br
>   ICQ:9721387
>

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