[CentOS] Samba 4.1.6

[Bowie Bailey]

On 10/17/2014 3:32 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 01:22:46PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:12:30 -0400
>> Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>
>>> That looked great until I got signed in and realized that they do not
>>> yet have CentOS 7 packages...
>> I don't need this so I didn't register and so on, but I'm wondering
>> if they offer a source rpm package on that site that you might be
>> able to compile yourself?
> They do.
>
> https://download.sernet.de/packages/samba/4.1/rhel/6/src/sernet-samba-4.1.12-9.src.rpm
>
> (Link of course requires a vaild account).
>
> I will note that the Sernet folks have indicated they plan to release
> EL7 packages, but that was several months back and nothing is available
> yet.
>
> In a pinch, you can often recompile packages from newer versions of
> Fedora and in some cases they'll even "just work" without recompile
> (I've installed the stock Samba RPM's from Fedora 20 into RHEL7 with
> zero issues).

I'll give the source rpm a try and see what happens.

Can this package coesist with the current Samba package, or do I need to 
remove the CentOS Samba package first?

-- 
Bowie