samba - Mar 2003 - Considering upgrade - looking for input

Hi all,

I'm considering upgrading my Samba server (originally Mandrake 7.2, but
bears little resemblance to it anymore) from 2.0.10 to 2.2.8. I'm
wondering if I'll be gaining anything in the upgrade in the way of
performance, management, etc. It's a pretty simple enviro handling a few
shares - home dirs, public share, etc - and probably won't grow to much
more than that.

Basically, since I can't install the Mandrake RPMs due to their
requirements (newer glib, etc. that I am not willing to install) I'll end
up building from source. I don't mind spending a few keystrokes doing
this, but I don't want to run into any unforseen issues

Anyone have any advice (except for maybe "if it ain't broke...")
on
whether the upgrade should run smoothely or should I just skip it? Should
the performance improve any?

-- 
John LeMay
KC2KTH
Senior Enterprise Consultant
NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848
Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions

John,
> I'm considering upgrading my Samba server (originally Mandrake 7.2,
> but bears little resemblance to it anymore) from 2.0.10 to 2.2.8. I'm
> wondering if I'll be gaining anything in the upgrade in the way of
> performance, management, etc. It's a pretty simple enviro handling a
> few shares - home dirs, public share, etc - and probably won't grow
> to much more than that.
...
> Anyone have any advice (except for maybe "if it ain't
broke...") on
> whether the upgrade should run smoothely or should I just skip it?
> Should the performance improve any?
Main reason to upgrade is the security fix provided by the recent version
and *a lot* of bugs fixed since release 2.0.10. If you use Samba in a
secured local LAN, security probably isn't such a big issue, but I'd
still
recommend upgrading. You will get much better printing support and a couple
of useful tools for common admin tasks. Performance may improve after you
upgraded but your mileage may vary since performance is influenced by so
*many* different factors (journaled filesystem yes/no, SCSI/IDE, RAID,
number of disks, memory, op system, kernel version, ...).

HTH,
Uli