Anthony Boccia
2012-Jul-25 14:39 UTC
[Samba] Question about the difference samba3x and samba 3.x
Hello All, I haven been having issues joining my windows 7 client to a samba 3.5.10-125 PDC. I have been doing some reading online and have found some pages that suggest that samba3x plays better with windows 7. The PDC OS is RHEL and i am using RHEL 6 upstream packages for samba. My question is, does this theory of samba3x being windows 7 friendly over samba 3.x hold true? Also, what is the difference between samba3x and samba 3.x. Thank You
Alberto Moreno
2012-Jul-25 15:28 UTC
[Samba] Question about the difference samba3x and samba 3.x
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Anthony Boccia <aboccia at afilias.info> wrote:> Hello All, > > I haven been having issues joining my windows 7 client to a samba > 3.5.10-125 PDC. I have been doing some reading online and have found some > pages that suggest that samba3x plays better with windows 7. The PDC OS is > RHEL and i am using RHEL 6 upstream packages for samba. My question is, > does this theory of samba3x being windows 7 friendly over samba 3.x hold > true? Also, what is the difference between samba3x and samba 3.x. > > Thank You > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/sambaHi. What U can tello u is that I have a samba 3.5.10-0.109.el5_8 as PDC+LDAP and I have follow the instructions for win7 and have success with Win7-Pro x32 x64, win 2008 x32 x64, this is Centos 5.8. On centos samba 3x is the new one that support this new OS from Redmont. Hope u read the samba+win7 doc? See u latter!!! -- LIving the dream...
Jonathan Buzzard
2012-Jul-25 15:28 UTC
[Samba] Question about the difference samba3x and samba 3.x
On 25/07/12 15:39, Anthony Boccia wrote:> Hello All, > > I haven been having issues joining my windows 7 client to a samba > 3.5.10-125 PDC. I have been doing some reading online and have found some > pages that suggest that samba3x plays better with windows 7. The PDC OS is > RHEL and i am using RHEL 6 upstream packages for samba. My question is, > does this theory of samba3x being windows 7 friendly over samba 3.x hold > true? Also, what is the difference between samba3x and samba 3.x. >With RHEL RedHat make long term commitments not to fiddle with version numbers of the software. However given the age of RHEL5 the Samba 3.0.x that it originally shipped with was getting very long in the tooth and does not work as well with Vista/Windows 7. To overcome this problem but allow people who wished to stay with the original Samba 3.0.x version RHEL introduced samba3x packages (with RHEL 5.5 from memory). These are a newer version of Samba originally 3.3.8, then 3.5.4 and now 3.5.10. The samba3x packages mean that if I do a yum update on my RHEL 5 file server it does not update my Samba version beyond 3.0.x and break it unless I explicitly do the upgrade by hand. Currently none of this applies on RHEL6 which is using 3.5.x from the get go. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk Fife, United Kingdom.