samba - Jun 2016 - Upgrading SAMBA from 4.2.2 to 4.2.13

Hey everyone

 

Have a (relatively) old CentOS SAMBA4 Active Directory running version
4.2.2, time to upgrade to the latest in the 4.2 series.

 

As it's running as a VM on ESXI I have it backed up by VEEAM and I can take
a snapshot before making any changes.

 

Any major items to be aware of before upgrading to 4.2.13?  Any reason I
should not perhaps be looking a bit further to the 4.4.x release series?

 

Many thanks!

Hello Craig,

Am 20.06.2016 um 22:27 schrieb Craig SHONE:
> Have a (relatively) old CentOS SAMBA4 Active Directory running version
> 4.2.2, time to upgrade to the latest in the 4.2 series.
>
> Any major items to be aware of before upgrading to 4.2.13? 
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Updating_Samba#Other_changes_you_should_pay_attention_to.2C_when_updating



> Any reason I should not perhaps be looking a bit further to
> the 4.4.x release series?
This depents on your environment. :-)

You should always check the release notes from the versions you plan to
skip. Then you can decite if there's something that has a negative
impact or requires some work.


Regards,
Marc

Thanks Marc, as far as I can see only the strong LDAP would pertain to my
install (it's very simple setup I have, one CentOS DC as a VM, one CentOS
box as a file server and one firewall with VPN authentication via LDAP). 
Firewall does support TLS for LDAP so I'm going to give it a bash over the
weekend.

Regards

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Muehlfeld [mailto:mmuehlfeld at samba.org] 
Sent: 21 June 2016 07:35 AM
To: Craig SHONE; samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Upgrading SAMBA from 4.2.2 to 4.2.13

Hello Craig,

Am 20.06.2016 um 22:27 schrieb Craig SHONE:
> Have a (relatively) old CentOS SAMBA4 Active Directory running version 
> 4.2.2, time to upgrade to the latest in the 4.2 series.
>
> Any major items to be aware of before upgrading to 4.2.13? 
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Updating_Samba#Other_changes_you_should_pay_attention_to.2C_when_updating



> Any reason I should not perhaps be looking a bit further to the 4.4.x 
> release series?
This depents on your environment. :-)

You should always check the release notes from the versions you plan to skip.
Then you can decite if there's something that has a negative impact or
requires some work.


Regards,
Marc