We came to same conclusion as others advised us to do and loaded SL 7.5
onto a flash drive and updated one box.  It was pretty impressive as to
how the network stuff hooked up.
The real driver in this is a TI CCS package that we needed for a new
imbeded project and it required a more upto date libc.
Thought about updating 6.10 but rebuilding everything fell into the too
hard catedgory.
We fixed the SAMBA problem and the out of date libc by the upgrade to SL
7.5.  We liked the KDE desktop as in my case I have two large monitors
and 12 desktops open.  A form of insanity mey be but a very effective
way to design and build stuff.
So we can continue to run old SW we have been using VMWare sine version
6 and now up to date 14.  The VMWare has everything from DOS to Windows
10.  And it all just a click away.  This way we were able to recycle old
systems that we kept to run old stuff.

My only fear is that I would be dead if I got "mouseitus" new medical
term. :-)

Thank You All

Larry Linder

On Wed, 2018-07-25 at 12:01 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 9:18 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> It's been a few days for Larry Linder, the original poster. Is it working now?
> 
> The "cifs-utils" package, which is what you need to be able to mount
> CIFS network file systems, has dependencies on samba libraries and
> packages. You can use "samba4" packages, which is probably a helpful
> upgrade, but it can be tricky to get to there gracefully. We can walk
> you through that upgrade path, if you'd like help.