[K12OSN] updating samba

[mrok12osn at eastgranby.k12.ct.us]

I have had to do this is the past (before using yum) and I think it was on
RH9 9 (maybe fedora 1).  I downloaded rpm's from samba.org

Back then, the samba rpm's at samba.org were packaged differently than
what redhat packaged for redhat (and fedora).

Back then and today, Redhat packaged samba as three rpms (which is also
true for fedora).

samba.i386
samba-client.i386
samba-common.i386

whereas samba.org has a single rpm.

I think that now for fedora, samba.org also packages three rpm's

Also, back then, I discovered that /var/cache/samba/ on redhat (and
fedora) became /var/lib/samba/ when installing from samba.org.  This
directory is used by samba to store a number of files.

Before you do anything else, make sure you backup /etc/samba/ and
/var/cache/samba/.

Because of the difference in packaging, I had to rpm -e the old samba
packages before installing the new.

Mark Orenstein
East Granby, CT School System




> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know an easy way to update samba to the latest release?  rpm
> -qa samba yields "samba-3.0.10-1.fc3".  I'm hoping going to 3.0.14 will
> fix the Win2k drag and drop bug that's been caused by a recent Windows
> Critical Update has caused.  yum update samba and yum upgrade samba find
> "No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion.  Is there a way to do this
> with yum, or do I have to do the whole
> download/unzip/tar/config/make/make install dance.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ck
>
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