[SunHELP] upgrading samba

[Steve Wingate]

If you install the different Samba packages in different locations with
different config files then, yes you can keep both versions and in fact use
them at the same time. I've heard of people running one daemon as a regular
server and one as domain controller on the same box. I think...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Engelien" <wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 12:08 PM
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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