Of course that breaks any support Red Hat offers on the very thing this server is intended for--file serving.
On 11/13/06, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
of course one could point him out the documentation that exists to do what he wants to do... http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/unixclients.html#ch9-adsdc and if he wanted to upgrade to the latest version of samba, he could install from kde-redhat repository since Rex has the packages for updating samba for RHEL http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ Craig On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 23:53 -0500, Aaron Kincer wrote: > If you do not absolutely have to use Red Hat, I can give you a quick and > easy way to get where you need to be: > > 0) Backup all files to a stable temporary repository or the backup media of > your choice. > > 1) Download and install Ubuntu 6.06 Server Dapper (I haven't tried 6.10Edgy > yet) > > 2) Follow these instructions: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91510 > > 3) Configure your shares either by hand or use SWAT > > 4) Copy your files form your repository or restore them from media to the > corresponding shares on your server. > > 5) If your backup software relies on the archive bit being properly > set/cleared, follow these instructions: > > http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2006-September/125314.html > > I might have missed something in there, but that should be enough to get you > on the right path. > > If you have to keep Red Hat, you aren't going to be happy. Their packages > are old and in bad need of upgrading. While I was able to get an RHEL server > using those old packages properly joined to a 2003 domain, it was not > acceptable. I won't go into it. Just trust me on this one--if you want even > close to the functionality you want, you have to use newer packages. If you > do and keep Red Hat, you lose their support for those packages. Nice > delimma, huh? > > Good luck. > > Aaron Kincer > > On 11/12/06, Michael Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > Thanks is advance for any help you can offer - > > > > > > > > I just inherited a Samba file server in my new position, and am familiar > > with Samba, but no genius in it. The problem is that we need to upgrade > > our Windows 2003 domain, and our Samba server - version 3.0.10-1.4E > > won't connect to a Windows 2003 active directory. So, we have to leave a > > Windows 2000 DC running to authenticate to it. > > > > > > > > I don't know if this is a problem with Kerberos or Samba - but it is the > > Kerberos that can't validate tickets to a windows 2003 Domain > > controller, according to my logs. > > > > > > > > So, I need to upgrade either Samba, or Kerberos, to work with our > > Windows 2003 Active Directory servers, so that we can dump our Win 2000 > > server and move the whole domain up to Win 2003 level and get on with > > other projects outside of Samba. But, the previous admin installed Samba > > from RPMs off Red Hat's site, and there doesn't seem to be any upgrades > > available through them. > > > > > > > > What do you folks recommend? Should I save my config files, and > > completely reinstall Samba, Kerberos, Openldap and all the rest from > > source? Or should I save my configs and use other RPMs to upgrade? If > > so, to what level? And if source, can anyone recommend an easy-to-follow > > guide to installing and configuring Samba with Windows 2003 AD? > > > > > > > > Thanks a million > > > > > > > > Michael Casale > > > > Systems Administrator / IT Manager > > > > Knoa Software > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Ph. (212) 807-9608 ext. 6000 > > > > Fax (212) 675-6121 > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
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