samba - Jul 2009 - Samba 3.4 on Centos 5.3

Dear Sirs,

I'm running a vanilla CentOS 5.3 server, and yum there has Samba  
3.0.33. What's the recommended way to install Samba 3.4 as an upgrade  
over 3.0.33? Just ./configure && make && sudo make install ?

Cheers

	Nik

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 08:57 +0200, Niklas Saers wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> 
> I'm running a vanilla CentOS 5.3 server, and yum there has Samba  
> 3.0.33. What's the recommended way to install Samba 3.4 as an upgrade  
> over 3.0.33? Just ./configure && make && sudo make install
?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 	Nik
In my humble opinion it's wise to choose the package from your
distribution.

Unless you have the time to maintain/upgrade it yourself.
They are in the repo because they are stable (That's how it works in
debian anyways).
And i do believe CentOS takes care of security patches.

With regards,
Kasper

Niklas Saers kirjoitti:
> Dear Sirs,
> 
> I'm running a vanilla CentOS 5.3 server, and yum there has Samba
3.0.33.
> What's the recommended way to install Samba 3.4 as an upgrade over 
> 3.0.33? Just ./configure && make && sudo make install ?
> 
> Cheers
It is recommended to use rpm packages, since Centos only provides very 
old version, many people are using samba from sernet repository:

ftp://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/experimental/centos/5/

Sernet samba usually works fine, but ..

--
Eero,
RHCE

cd to samba-3.4.0/packaging/RHEL and run sh makerpms.sh

then rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/X86_64/samba*3.4.0*.rpm

smbpasswd -w

/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart

Niklas Saers wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I'm running a vanilla CentOS 5.3 server, and yum there has Samba 
> 3.0.33. What's the recommended way to install Samba 3.4 as an upgrade 
> over 3.0.33? Just ./configure && make && sudo make install
?
>
> Cheers
>
>     Nik