[Wylug-help] despirate help needed - Samba and security = share

[Gary Stainburn]

I've managed to stablise the old server and that is now running (reasonably) 
happily again.  One of the main things that I fixed was the Bacula backup 
process which failed for I have no idea why. Anyway it's working again.

I've not installed a Centos 7 system to have a play with as I've only used 
Centos (6.2) once before and even then I couldn't get it to do what I wanted.

I'm now torn between your suggestion and biting the bullett and re-designing 
the whole Samba setup.  One of the concerns I have with doing what you say is 
that I've already had a go with a new install Fedora 17 setup which had a 
version of Samba old enough to have "security = share" enabled but I still 
could not get Windows PCs to connect to it.

For this reason I suspect that other aspects of the setup are affecting Samba, 
e.g. SeLinux. If this is the case, then compiling from source may also not 
work on this box.

I'll keep everyone informed, but it may take a while because as usual, 
stablising this problem has moved it's ranking in my priorities :-)

On Thursday 05 February 2015 23:51:54 Don Magee wrote:
> I don't need to upgrade yet, but when I do, I will encounter the same
> problem. If you install a binary package, you get the latest version.
> But you can also get the source code for an earlier  version from the
> samba site and compile it yourself.
>
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