[CentOS] Upgrading samba past the regular packages

Steven Vishoot sir_funzone at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 27 07:21:05 UTC 2006



Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu> wrote:  On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:19:44PM -0500, Matt Morgan enlightened us:
> Despite Craig's excellent help with my Excel/Samba, I continue to have
> trouble with Samba 3.0.10 under CentOS 4.2. Quickbooks, now, too, is
> just acting really weird.
> 
> I'm tempted to upgrade beyond the regular packages, although I really
> don't like to do that, because the samba list and a lot of info online
> lead me to believe that 3.0.11+ fixes these issues.
> 
> What's the best way to use something newer than the regualr packages?
> Does someone out there have a CentOS repo with a newer samba? Should I
> just use the Fedora packages?
> 

I've never used packages from here, but you might check out
http://enterprisesamba.com/

Another Matt

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i  have used RPM's from the site and did not have a problem with the  packages, matter of fact it solved a major problem i was having with  3.0.10 releases of samba. the version i downloaded from the site worked  right out of the box, i can not say that about 3.0.10. 



Steven
 

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