[SunHELP] upgrading samba

[ChrisBotha at CTNDDN]

Hi,

Maybe this is a bad recommendation, but have you ever thought of running
Sun's PC netlink instead?

-----Original Message-----
From: Wolfgang Engelien [mailto:wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu]
Sent: 12 March 2001 10:08
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] upgrading samba


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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