Re: [CentOS] samba upgrade 3.0 - 3.x error convert passdb.tdb

On 7/22/2010 11:07 AM, camun wrote:

Yes! I posted on the samba list and found that there is a patch for version 3.3. However, the patch must be applied in the / source .... then be compiled. The procedure and did not get the expected result. Do the developers forgot to apply this patch to versions rpms??

2010/7/22 John Doe <jdmls@yahoo.com mailto:jdmls@yahoo.com>

From: camun <camun.ilha@gmail.com <mailto:camun.ilha@gmail.com>>
 >after several days of searching, I have not found a definitive
answer to the
 >problem samba Migrating from 3.0.x to 3.3.x. (Migrating from 3.0.x
to 3.3.x Can

 >Fail to Update passdb.tdb Correctly (bug # 6195) .
 >passdb.tdb break occurs in the file where the new samba starts.
 >Any suggestions or someone going through the same problem?
 >(I'm running samba 3.0.28 with upgrade to 3.5.4 (Sernet repo)

Using Sernet rpms means you should be checking with the Sernet folks. I believe the problem may be that Centos samba looks for the tdb files in /var/cache/samba while Sernet looks in /var/lib/samba.

Centos has samba 3.3.8 in the samba3x rpms - should be a trivial update.