On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 3:06 AM, Karel Lang AFD <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
> the Samba team makes constant changes to keep up with MS upgrades.
> If you want to downgrade Samba, just downgrade it, doesn't make sense to
> downgrade whole OS
> Might be, that you need only update your smb.conf to get to working
> condition, some features are simply deprecated.
> Do you use samba 4 or samba 3?
>
>
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> On 07/23/2018 04:38 PM, Larry Linder wrote:
>>
>> We upgraded one system to SL6.10 and noticed that it no longer was
>> recognized by the serer and it could not see server or any of the other
>> linux or windos boxes.  We verified that they network is defined as
>> WORKGROUP on all systems.
>>
>> We looked at smb.conf and the firewall and nothing makes any sense, It
>> is set up like all the other systems.
>>
>> Is there anyway to un update a system say from the 6.10 back to 6.9 ?
>> other than reloading it.
>>
>> We also noticed that Nautilis was been "carved on" and a lot of the nice
>> features are gone.
>>
>> smb builds it own host table.  What creates it.  It is just a simpler
>> version of the "hosts" file we on all systems.
>>
>> Thank You
>> Larry Linder
>> MicroControls LLC

Larry Linder? APO brother from MIT? If so *HI, LARRY*. If not, "never mind".

In any case, couple of things. One is that SL 6 is headed for
obsolescence soon, it's nearly 10 years old and Red Hat is abandoning
ordinary support for RHEL 6 at the end of 2020, so it's time to plan
your upgrades and migrations. Second is that, unless you're running
the host as a server you don't need Samba. You only need cifs-utils,
and maybe autofs to provide auto-mounting. There is little point to
running Samba if you don't actually need the host to be a server. If
you need it to provide shared workspaces or printing, cool, that's why
I published the early public ports of Samba to SunOS...... oh, so long
ago. But if you don't need to do that, *don't*.

Let us know if you're using the default "samba*-3-*" packages, or the
more up-to-date and powerful "samba4-*" packages, and feel free to
post your smb.conf so we can take a look for hints at the issue. In
fact, if you're not using the host as a server, take those out. They
just complicate debugging. If someone tried to build Samba locally and
install it, it could be overlapping with your RPM installs and causing
adventures. (Been there, done that.) And if someone tried shoe-horning
in a 3rd-party Samba, it could also cause adventures (Been there,
done... oh, you get the idea.) So a "yum list extras" command might
reveal some helpful issues.

Nautilus... was never my friend. I found it unstable and
destabilizing. But I work mostly from the command line