samba - Dec 2002 - libcups.so.2 plus some general / opinion type questions (maybe newbie questions)

Hi,

We have several Redhat 7.2 servers which contain; amongst other things, an
important company database. I have been asked to install samba and winbind to
provide seamless integration.

Now the situation currently is:

Redhat 7.2 contains samba 2.2.1 rpm (i.e no winbind)
Downloaded samba-2.2.7-1.i386.rpm from samba.org mirror
rpm –ivh samba-2.2.7-1.i386.rpm  then I get a failed dependency error.

Redhat support was, in this case, not too good, they suggested either upgrading
to 7.3 or 8.0, unfortunately this is not an option with the DB server.

Libcups.so.2 is part of cups. If I install cups it could affect the current
printing through linux (especially on the DB server).
If no printing is being handled via samba and all we need is unified logins and
file access am I ok doing:

rpm –ivh –nodeps samba-2.2.7-1.i386.rpm 

Follow up non-samba question:  Why does Linux make me feel like a complete
newbie and a luser so easily?

Steve

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:07:34 -0400, steve.mayes@SAFe-mail.net wrote:

>Redhat 7.2 contains samba 2.2.1 rpm (i.e no winbind)
>Downloaded samba-2.2.7-1.i386.rpm from samba.org mirror
>rpm ?ivh samba-2.2.7-1.i386.rpm  then I get a failed dependency error.
Which dependency?
>Redhat support was, in this case, not too good, they suggested either
upgrading to 7.3 or 8.0, unfortunately this is not an option with the DB server.
Why don't you download
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/SRPMS/samba-2.2.7-1.7.3.src.rpm
and rebuild it on your system?
Chances are that the 7.3 binary rpm's would work on rh72 too directly.
>Libcups.so.2 is part of cups. If I install cups it could affect the current
printing through linux (especially on the DB server).
>If no printing is being handled via samba and all we need is unified logins
and file access am I ok doing:
libcups is part of cups-libs rpm which you can install without causing any
problem (install just cups-libs and not cups rpm)

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