On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 18:30 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Steven A. DuChene wrote:
> > If it was me I would look for a distribution that had newer bits (Samba
> > & etc)
> > than CentOS5.4
> >
> > Perhaps OpenSuSE-11.2 or similar.
>
> Newer etc? ;)
>
> I am a little disappointed that CentOS5 doesn't have a more recent
> Samba, but newer Samba rpms for EL5 are available from sernet.de.
>
> I agree with Steve that CentOS will likely have better stability. I'm
> not sure that changing distros in order to get more current packages is
> a good strategy. When desirable pieces are missing from a given distro,
> they can often be found already packaged in alternate places (yum
> repositories, or yum repos if you're lucky). I wouldn't expect any
> distro to necessarily have all of the software that might be desirable
> for a given host configuration.
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personally - I think the suggestions of 'fixing' things that aren't
broken to be a really poor idea.
Samba 3.4.x is important for Windows 7 clients but if you don't have
Windows 7 clients, why go down that road?
Craig
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