[CentOS] Samba 4.1.6

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 03:51:39PM -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> 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?

I'm not 100% certain, but would suggest you remove (and maybe exclude)
the official RPM's from your system.

Ray