Comments on: Upgrade Samba 3.0.28a to 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

By: louis

louis — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:03:47 +0000

Simon Faulkner said: 2012.01.29 07:23
and to make is even easier…

add the oneiric sources to your apt list.
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric main restricted
now apt-get source -t oneiric samba
apt-get install build-essential
apt-get build-dep samba
apt-get source -t oneiric samba -b

By: Simon Faulkner

Simon Faulkner — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:23:23 +0000

WOW! This was a BIG help – it just worked on Ubuntu 8.04.4 using Samba 3.6.2 on 2012-02-29

Dan Shearer (Samba Team Member) suggested using

apt-get install build-essential
apt-get build-dep samba

which should make sure that all the parts are pulled in ready for the build

By: Mitan

Mitan — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:35:18 +0000

I am currently using Windows 7 with Ubuntu 8.04LTS and Samba 3.0.28a acting as a PDC server. Up until this morning my Windows 7 client was able to join and login to the PDC linux machine. When I came to my desk today and tried to login I had a trust relationship error. All windows XP machines on the network connect just fine to the PDC.

I am trying to determine the best course of action. Does anyone have experience with this problem and will upgrading Samba correct the problem? I only have one windows 7 client, so if there is something I can do on the client side I wouldn’t mind that.

Any / All of your input will be valuable. Thanks!

By: Marty Cannon

Marty Cannon — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:55:00 +0000

I finally ended up just readding the users to samba with:
smbpasswd -a username

After adding the users, I could authenticate. I did have to unjoin all machines from the domain, and rejoin them to actually get my roaming profiles working. In the end, all is well. Thanks for the writeup!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 01:06:38 +0000

Looks like you are still running the old version – 3.0.28a. Something in your compile or make install didn’t work. Or you forgot to run make install and just compiled it…

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 01:04:50 +0000

It should be the same process. Give it a try and let us know if it works.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 01:02:16 +0000

All of my installs use LDAP for the back end, but I wouldn’t be at all suprised if the the new installation doesn’t pick up the old tdbsam database. (Samba doesn’t use the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files directly) You probably have to import it from wherever it is/was. Google for “tdbsam import export” and you should find some clues about upgrading samba…

By: MC

MC — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:02:48 +0000

I followed the instructions here to the letter. I used Yogg’s ./configure line and everything went as planned. Samba has been upgraded, as smbstatus reports “Samba version 3.4.4″.

Prior to the upgrade, the server was set up as a pdc with doman users having roaming profiles. I’m using tdbsam as the backend. Everything was working great. After the update, samba doesn’t want to authenticate any of my domain users. I get this error for every user:

[2010/09/10 16:57:35, 2] auth/auth.c:320(check_ntlm_password)
check_ntlm_password: Authentication for user [vsoffice3] -> [vsoffice3] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER

I tried listing the users with wbinfo -u, and it reports:
Error looking up domain users

What the heck happened to my users? I still see all the user and machine info in the /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd files. I’ve verified that the permissions on the user profiles are correct. None of the users can log into the domain, and none can access shares. Any thoughts?

Here’s my smb.conf.
[global]
workgroup = DOMAIN
netbios name = SERVER
server string = ADA Domain Server
private dir = /etc/samba/private
passdb backend = tdbsam

…blah blah blah…

By: csaba

csaba — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:18:58 +0000

Hi,
do you think upgrading from ubuntu 8.04′s samba this way to samba 3.5.4 is also possible?
I am in a school where I use samba and ldap and would like to safely upgrade to have win7 support.
Any suggestions?

By: Sparky007

Sparky007 — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:14:56 +0000

When I give command smbstatus it returns me with this. I’m not much of samba expert,but when I look into smb.conf it’s the old one, nothing to configure for LDAP.

Samba version 3.0.28a
PID Username Group Machine
——————————————————————-

Service pid machine Connected at
——————————————————-

No locked files

Best regards and thanks for reply.