samba - Mar 2025 - Switching to 64 bit version in existing DC server.

On 07.03.2025 17:17, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> 
> Not sure I fully understand this, surely if you are going to install a
> 64bit version of Samba, it will be on a 64bit OS ?
> 
	Since server has 32 bit Debian with amd64 kernel, I thought, that I 
could install samba under foreign amd64 architecture.  Unfortunately 
python dependencies stopped that. Even after replacing python with 64 
bit version, other architecture python any packages still wanted 32 bit 
version.

	Reinstalling 64 bit server is not currently possible...

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Virgo P?rna
virgo.parna at mail.ee

I took a cursory look at the toolchain and it looks like a lot of the tools
are written in python.

I had this assumption they were written in C.

So that certainly is a problem.  I would start from scratch and plan a new
server with something more modern.

I would recommend Fedora or Ubuntu as the packages are pretty good.

Time to brush up on the documentation too.

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Main_Page

I just recently went through decommissioning some of my Microsoft 2019 AD
servers and replacing them with Samba-AD.

The above documentation was pretty up to date. I googled for the rest.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 11:39?AM Virgo P?rna via samba <samba at
lists.samba.org>
wrote:
> On 07.03.2025 17:17, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> >
> > Not sure I fully understand this, surely if you are going to install a
> > 64bit version of Samba, it will be on a 64bit OS ?
> >
>
>         Since server has 32 bit Debian with amd64 kernel, I thought, that
> I
> could install samba under foreign amd64 architecture.  Unfortunately
> python dependencies stopped that. Even after replacing python with 64
> bit version, other architecture python any packages still wanted 32 bit
> version.
>
>         Reinstalling 64 bit server is not currently possible...
>
> --
> Virgo P?rna
> virgo.parna at mail.ee
>
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I had this problem some time ago. i was able to crossgrade 32 to 64 and it
wasn?t too bad.

HOWTO:

?https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading
https://ewen.mcneill.gen.nz/blog/entry/2018-06-20-debian-i386-to-amd64-crossgrade/

https://stbuehler.de/blog/article/2017/06/28/debian_stretch__upgrade_32-bit_to_64-bit.html


On 7 Mar 2025 at 18:38 +0000, Virgo P?rna via samba <samba at
lists.samba.org>, wrote:
> On 07.03.2025 17:17, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> >
> > Not sure I fully understand this, surely if you are going to install a
> > 64bit version of Samba, it will be on a 64bit OS ?
> >
>
> Since server has 32 bit Debian with amd64 kernel, I thought, that I
> could install samba under foreign amd64 architecture. Unfortunately
> python dependencies stopped that. Even after replacing python with 64
> bit version, other architecture python any packages still wanted 32 bit
> version.
>
> Reinstalling 64 bit server is not currently possible...
>
> --
> Virgo P?rna
> virgo.parna at mail.ee
>
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