good afternoon, current status: samba pdc running samba 3.0.10-1.fc3 on fedora core 3 on a dell server. clients are windows 2000 pro workstations. authentication is via tdbsam. pretty vanilla setup. no active directory, ldap, winbind, etc. i have downloaded the rpm's from samba.org for current stable release samba 3.0.14a-1. usually i perform upgrades to samba server using rpm -Fvh samba-*, with this set of rpm's the update does not run using the rpm -Fvh command. i do recall list traffic that did not recommend upgrading this way, but have not had any problems in the past doing it this way. could someone steer me to documentation that would help me upgrade the samba software via rpm? i have downloaded and read the samba pdf manuls by john terpstra, jelmer vernooij, and jerry carter (excellent reading), but did not find my specific issue. thank you, stuart
tir, 07.06.2005 kl. 22.51 skrev Stuart Highlander:> current status: > samba pdc running samba 3.0.10-1.fc3 on fedora core 3 on a dell server. > clients are windows 2000 pro workstations. > authentication is via tdbsam. > > pretty vanilla setup. no active directory, ldap, winbind, etc. > > i have downloaded the rpm's from samba.org for current stable release samba > 3.0.14a-1. usually i perform upgrades to samba server using rpm -Fvh > samba-*, with this set of rpm's the update does not run using the rpm -Fvh > command. > > i do recall list traffic that did not recommend upgrading this way, but have > not had any problems in the past doing it this way. > > could someone steer me to documentation that would help me upgrade the samba > software via rpm?I don't have Fedora, I have RHAS3 at the moment. The samba.org srpm installs fine on RHAS3. But ... You need to read up on rpmbuild and practice using it. rpmbuild --rebuild package.srpm gives me a vanilla binary rpm package in my /usr/src/redhat/RPM/i386 directory, that I can install with rpm. This assumes I have installed all compiler and development support in advance. However, I'm not satisfied with a vanilla rpm, I want to change compile configure options. So I do rpm -ivh package.srpm, go to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS, edit the spec file I've just installed, go back to the package directory and do rpm -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/samba.spec and I get a custom rpm in /usr/src/redhat/RPM/i386, which I can then install with rpm -Uvh. Sounds daunting, but it isn't really, if one's used to compiling source code (which one should be ;) The samba.org srpms give less trouble than many other srpms, hats off to the maintainers. --Tonni> i have downloaded and read the samba pdf manuls by john terpstra, jelmer > vernooij, and jerry carter (excellent reading), but did not find my specific > issue.-- mail: tonye@billy.demon.nl http://www.billy.demon.nl
Stuart Highlander wrote:>good afternoon, > >current status: >samba pdc running samba 3.0.10-1.fc3 on fedora core 3 on a dell server. >clients are windows 2000 pro workstations. >authentication is via tdbsam. > >pretty vanilla setup. no active directory, ldap, winbind, etc. > >i have downloaded the rpm's from samba.org for current stable release samba >3.0.14a-1. usually i perform upgrades to samba server using rpm -Fvh >samba-*, with this set of rpm's the update does not run using the rpm -Fvh >command. > >i do recall list traffic that did not recommend upgrading this way, but have >not had any problems in the past doing it this way. > >could someone steer me to documentation that would help me upgrade the samba >software via rpm? > >i have downloaded and read the samba pdf manuls by john terpstra, jelmer >vernooij, and jerry carter (excellent reading), but did not find my specific >issue. > >thank you, > >stuart > > >Stuart, I understand your predicament. Redhat/ Fedora package Samba in a different way than the rpm you just downloaded from the site. You can usually find 3 or 4 samba rpm's installed on Fedora 3 : samba-common-3.0.10-1.fc3 samba-3.0.10-1.fc3 samba-client-3.0.10-1.fc3 I can't remember exactly, but i think gnome-vfs2-smb depends on samba-common. Other gnome rpm's depend on gnome-vfs2-smb etc .... The rpm from the site provides one rpm package : samba-3.0.14a-1 If your not bothered about using gnome you can uninstall the Fedora Samba rpm's (stop samba first of course): rpm --nodeps -e samba samba-common samba-client then install the rpm from samba.org rpm -Uvh samba-3.0.14a-1.i386.rpm One thing to look out for. What was previously located in /var/cache/samba is now located in /var/lib/samba. regards -- Ian Clancy IT Systems Engineer Connaught Electronics Ltd. Dunmore Rd, Tuam, Co. Galway, Ireland. P : ++353 93 23151 F : ++353 93 23110 E : mailto:clancyian@cel.ie W : http://www.cel-europe.com