[SunHELP] upgrading samba

[Wolfgang Engelien]

First of all thanks for your info.

Can I leave the old samba running while installing
the new and then just switch over (and maybe back, if
there are some unexpected difficulties)?

Thanks,
Wolfgang

>the one big gotcha that you have to watch out for is: if you use the prebuilt
>backage from sunfreeware.com copy your smb.conf off to somewhere else first.
>the package has it's own smb.conf as an example, and the package install just
>wipes out your smb.conf with the example one.  i know, i got burned with
this,
>luckily the person who was resonaible for maintaining samba on that machine
>had a hardcopy of the config file so we could rekey it back in.
>
>that's the only issue i know of, it doesn't overwrite the smbpasswd file or
>any other files to my knowledge, but please backup you smb.conf before doing
>this!!!  this was the only problem i had going from 2.0.0 to 2.0.6
>
>cheers,
>
>-brian
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