On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Jason Williams wrote:
> Morning everyone.
>
> We are currently running samba 2.2.8a as a PDC on our network. However,
> being that samba 3.0 is not to far from having a stable release, I wanted
> to ask some questions on what is the safest way to upgrade samba on my
server.
>
> I should mention that I am using samba with ldapsam on the backend to hold
> all of our user accounts and passwords.
> I am also running RH 7.3. Samba was installed by using a custom .rpm.
>
> Since that is the case, anyone have any suggestions on the best way to
> safely and quickly upgrade samba?
Make sure you read the release notes (WHATSNEW.txt) for
new/removed/modified parameters. Also read the section on upgrading
from 2.2. Make sure to backup local tdbs since downgrading from 3.0 is
not supported.
cheers, jerry
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