[CentOS] CentOS 6.8 and samba

Tue May 23 14:21:54 UTC 2017
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 12:51:50PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> The bug report mentioned in the message you replied to indicates that the
> problem was fixed in samba's master branch with this commit:
> 
> https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=4d5680e9ae531c6dc4d0a6687abe6293b5d4f4f2
> 
> That change isn't included in samba 4.4, distributed in RHEL 7 (nor 4.2 in
> RHEL 6), so you'll probably need to patch the software yourself, or wait for
> a 4.5 or newer package (which won't happen before the next point release,
> which is probably ~6 months away). If you're a customer, you can also file a
> bug report and request that specific patch be reviewed as an enhancement for
> a future release.

I see that in the RHEL7.4 Beta release notes, samba is being rebased
to 4.6.2.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/7.4_Release_Notes/new_features_authentication_and_interoperability.html

So, perhaps this will be fixed in CentOS7 when RHEL7.4 is released and
rebuilt in CentOS.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>