Tag: backports

Upgrading Samba from Lenny-backports

For some reason, after upgrading to the Samba version from Lenny-backports I needed to support Windows 7 profiles, the workstations suffered from severe problems. The entire profile seemed to be read-only, even though they weren't on disk. I couldn't change any setting and reverting profile configuration from backups didn't help. In the end, the only thing that fixed it was recreating the user profile, both server and client side. This was an upgrade from 3.2.5 to 3.4.7. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on March 29, 2010, at 13:03 | No comments

Installing Samba from lenny-backports

With our new Windows 7 machines, we need at least samba 3.3.7. However, our server with Debian stable doesn't have that in its repository. So, I was forced to install samba with lenny-backports. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on March 17, 2010, at 12:03 | No comments