[wellylug] How to update Samba on Clark Connect 3.0?

Sarah McMurray sarahmcm at getthebest.co.nz
Fri May 13 16:34:31 NZST 2005


Thank you, it turns out to be Fedora, and the latest Samba we could find for
that is 3.0.10 and we needed 3.0.11. So to hell with it we're blowing away
ClarkConnect and have put Debian Sarge on to our trial machine, for which we
have found Samba 3.0.14 woohoo!!

Cheers

SarahMcM

-----Original Message-----
From: jumbophut [mailto:jumbophut at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, 12 May 2005 10:51 p.m.
To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
Subject: Re: [wellylug] How to update Samba on Clark Connect 3.0?

On 5/12/05, Sarah McMurray wrote:
>  
> We are trying to get the latest version of Samba Server and are having 
> difficulties upgrading: the server is telling us when performing 
> apt-get that the latest version of Samba server is already installed, 
> when we know it is not - as the bug is still there.
>   

First of all, have you tried asking the ClarkConnect folks?

Secondly, since you are using this on a client's box, I disclaim all
responsibility for any breakage that may be caused by following my advice.

If you are still reading, ...

ClarkConnect /seems/ to be based on Debian.  I can't tell easily from their
pages.  Debian comes in three flavours: Stable, Testing and Unstable.  The
samba versions corresponding to these are 2.2.3a-15, 3.0.14a-1, and
3.0.14a-1 respectively.

Try 'smbd -V' to see which version of samba you have.  That might give you
an idea of which Debian flavour ClarkConnect is using (it won't be
absolutely foolproof because it is possible to run combinations of flavours,
but have a look anyway).

You can find out the source of debs that is being used by looking in
/etc/apt/sources.list.  One of the lines in there should indicate where
apt-get is looking for new stuff (hopefully there are lines beginning deb
http://...)

If you want to run a later version of samba, and one is available from
Debian, you have choices.

1. You can add/change lines in /etc/apt/sources.list.  Something like:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib # Replace stable with
testing or unstable if necessary

2. If you have a Debian Stable base, but want to run a later version of
Samba, you can use a backport.  Add a line like this to
sources.list:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian woody samba

3. If you have a Debian Stable (or even Testing) base, you can upgrade to a
later version of Debian.  Read the apt-get docs.

If Debian doesn't make a newer version available, you can always compile the
later version from source and put it in the /usr/local or /opt hierarchies.
But this is likely to be a significantly more complicated way to go -- you
will probably have to download other sources too to satisfy dependencies.

Best of luck.

--
Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')


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