[Samba] Upgrading Samba

me at tdiehl.org
Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:26:46 -0000

Hi Rowland,

On Wed, 6 Feb 2019, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 15:20:56 +0400
> henri transfert via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've planned to upgrade a Samba DC from 4.6.7 to 4.9.4 .
>
> STOP!
>
> Do not do this directly, reports on here have shown that this will not
> work.
>
> You will have to 'walk' up the versions, it may work if you go to
> 4.8.3, then to 4.9.4, but you may have to go to 4.7.2 first.

If I have a domain running (2) 4.7.x DC's and I build 2 new DC's with
4.9.latest,
join the domain and make them DC's and then decommission the old DC's,
is that expected to work?

Regards,

--
Tom			me at tdiehl.org