A3. Samba for Fedora Core 4 / 5 / 6

A3.1 Fedora Core 5 / 6
(last update: 19 May 2007)

FC5 comes with samba v3.0.21b and FC6 has version 3.0.23c. The current samba RPM version from yum at the time of writing for FC5/6 is v3.0.24. It is highly recommended to use the latest version.

The required RPM packages for samba in Fedora are samba, samba-client, samba-common. Install through yum if any of them is missing.

[root@pptp ~]# yum install samba samba-common samba-client

Please go to Section 9.1 to continue the Samba configuration.

Note: Information on Samba and FC4 can be found in the next section.

FC4 comes with samba v3.0.14a. The samba project released v3.0.20 on 20 August 2005. Here is a quote from the v3.0.20 release note about winbind.

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Winbindd has been completely rewritten in this release to support an almost completely non-blocking, asynchronous request/reply model. This means that winbindd will scale much better in large domain environments and on high latency networks.
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It is highly recommended to upgrade samba to v3.0.20 or above. The latest samba v3.0.21c rpms for FC4 can be found in here. Download a copy and then update samba with command "rpm -Uvh samba*.rpm".

Please go to Section 9.1 to continue the Samba configuration.

Note: Samba v3.0.21 has a bug on the oplock code. Avoid this version. Use v3.0.21a or above.