samba - Dec 2012 - New version Samba matrix

Hi everybody,

I have a client with redhat 3.8 32bits, on this platform he use an old samba
version

Could you tell me if the new samba's version (Samba 4) can be installed on
this platform.

Fr?d?ric DOUCHE
    Groupe APX

    Vos Architectes ''Services & Technologies''

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On Mon, 2012-12-24 at 15:22 +0100, Douche, Frederic
wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I have a client with redhat 3.8 32bits, on this platform he use an old
samba version
> 
> Could you tell me if the new samba's version (Samba 4) can be installed
on this platform.
It certainly may be easier to run an older version of Samba than the
very newest code, on such an old platform. 

What features of Samba 4.0 do you need on such an old host?  You really
should upgrade the host, and not just the Samba installation. 

We strive to keep Samba running on really old systems, but there are
limits.  You will however need to work those out yourself by trial and
error, as the packages at
http://www.enterprisesamba.org/samba-packages/red-hats-rhel/ do not
stretch back to RHEL 3.8. 

As RHEL 3.8 will not have a current python, you may need to either use
the install_with_python.sh script, or try the autoconf build in
source3/.  

Andrew Bartlett

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RHEL 3 I believe reached end of support (by RedHat, not Samba) in 2010. I
believe RHEL 4 has since reached end of support as well. So unless the client is
paying for RedHat extended life-cycle service or is off the network (unlikely he
wants to interface with Samba), he should be off of that platform ASAP because
he's no longer receiving any security patches.



----- Original Message -----
From: Douche, Frederic [mailto:Frederic.Douche at apx-integration.fr]
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2012 09:22 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org <samba at lists.samba.org>
Subject: [Samba] New version Samba matrix

Hi everybody,

I have a client with redhat 3.8 32bits, on this platform he use an old samba
version

Could you tell me if the new samba's version (Samba 4) can be installed on
this platform.

Fr?d?ric DOUCHE
    Groupe APX

    Vos Architectes ''Services & Technologies''

    Mobile:+33.(0)6.98.05.29.85


29 Rue Denis Papin - Parc Club des Pr?s - 59650 Villeneuve D'Ascq

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at apx.fr<mailto:frederic.douche at apx.fr>
   www.apx.fr<http://www.apx.fr/>



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On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Douche, Frederic
<Frederic.Douche at apx-integration.fr> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have a client with redhat 3.8 32bits, on this platform he use an old
samba version
As an active RHEL user and CentOS and Scientific Linux user, I've got
to tell you, nothing should be *allowed* to run on such an old system.
Production suport for RHEL 3 ended in 2010, there is extended support
available until January 30, 2014, but it's going to stink to be you
trying to maintain that platform, especially since security updates
have fallen well behind. EPEL has dropped support for it, the "mock"
toolkit for building RPM's cleanly has even dropped support for RHEL
4,

Amazingly, rpmforge is still doing some updates for RHEL 3, but system
components will be in the rpmforge "extras" repository, so you'll
have
to dig around for them. Tools like "rsync" will benefite from the
RPMforge update.

If you need it, you can try my SRPM components for Samba 3.6.10 at
https://github.com/nkadel/samba-3.6.10-srpm. But of course getting
*git* to work on RHEL 3.x will be an adventure, itself, and don't even
ask about other source control systems like Subversion. I'm the
current author of the latest Subversion RPM's for RPMforge, for
Subversion 1.6.x and Subversion 1.7.x

I'd really encourage you to update to RHEL 5, which is current and
maintained, or RHEL 6, which is the current release.