A3. Samba for Fedora Core 4
(last update: 6 March 2006)

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".

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

In additional to the software we installed in the previous sections, we need two more. Freeradius is one of them. FC4 comes with freeradius-1.0.2-2 but it is broken. At the time of writing, the latest one is freeradius-1.0.4-1.FC4.1. Get it from yum as it has quite a few dependences. yum will resolve all required dependences automagically.

[root@pptp ~]# yum install freeradius

The second software you will need is radiusclient. Get the FC4 rpm, radiusclient-0.3.2-0.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm, from RPMforge. Install it with "rpm -ivh".