Newer Version of Samba on Centos 5.3

[Handieke]

Hi,

What could be the consequences of installing a newer version of samba on a recent 5.3 installation,
we currently have samba 3.028.
Has anyone experience with the packages of sernet found at ftp://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/recent/centos/

We use samba extensively, do we benefit of updating to 3.3.4 ?

Thx for any info.

Andy

[gerald_clark]

Did you try the search button?
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=19984&forum=30&post_id=75438#forumpost75438

[Handieke]

Yes but that is for centos 4.7 , not even on a production machine.

I'd like to hear from someone with actual field experience if it's worth upgrading.
Ofcourse Centos will withdraw support; however it is guessing why the haven't updated the samba version to a more recent one.

[AlanBartlett]

[quote]however it is guessing why the haven't updated the samba version to a more recent one.[/quote]
Guesswork is not involved.

Please be aware that at the binary level, [i]CentOS == RHEL[/i] less the paid-for support from [i]RH[/i].

Here is [i]upstream[/i]'s [url=http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/]policy on backporting security and bug fixes.[/url]

[scottro]

I found one of the better explanations of the policy, and the reasons for it, aside from the obvious, over at the Freeradius faq site. It might be worth a read for anyone wondering, "Why do they use such old packages.?"

http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ#Current_Pre-built_RPM.27s_for_RHEL_5_and_CentOS_5

For whatever reason, that made it much clearer to me.