> What you are asking isn't security problem, but a wish for latest and > greatest. This will not happen in stable release. You could > come up with same question for every single package.
Actually no, I'm *not* looking for the latest and greatest, just something that works. My configuration is little more than an NT Domain Controller clone from circa 1996. I have now learned a very unfortunate lesson... No GNU/Linux/Samba stable distro is a reliable replacement for a bog standard Windows Server. Note my distro generalisation (UBUNTU happens to be my first introduction to Linux). The strange thing is that the Samba team has done a wonderful job in reverse engineering the low level SMB/CIFS operation i.e. fundamental file access/manipulation is reliable and performance seems to be excellent. But the higher level permissions mappings etc seem to be all over the place. Yet I feel Samba is just a hair's breath away from getting things right...if they would just do a feature freeze on 3.0.X. I can now see how difficult it is for distro maintainers working with Samba. Surely all 3.0.X releases should have more or less identical dependencies, otherwise start a new branch 3.1.X etc. I would also worry that some 3.0.25c security patches backported to 3.0.22 might have unintended side effects given the enormous amount of code changes and bug fixes between the two versions. Jim Shanks's very "diplomatic" contribution gives me some cause for holding my head high amidst all the venom. Thanks Jim, I needed that! I am no Samba insider but I think Jeremy and the Samba team need to stop basking in past glories and start getting their act together. They need to stop tinkering around at the bleeding edge and look at what people are experiencing on the ground with stable distros. Otherwise, somebody should fork the Samba project..perhaps as part of a Small Business Server distro along the lines of what Jim is suggesting. Can Ubuntu do to Samba what it did to Debian??? Oops, maybe I shouldn't have said that ;-) -- Samba Backport Urgently Needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137656 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
