Red Hat Training

A Red Hat training course is available for Red Hat Gluster Storage

Chapter 7. Deploying Samba on Red Hat Storage

Red Hat Storage provides a more recent version of Samba than the one shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6. This allows Red Hat Storage to take advantage of the latest features and enhancements. It includes a plug-in for directly accessing Red Hat Storage server.

7.1. Prerequisites

To install Samba on Red Hat Storage you require access to the installation media either through an ISO or a properly configured software repository. The Red Hat Storage server requirements are:
  1. You must install Red Hat Storage Server 3.0.4 on the target server.

    Warning

    • The Samba version 3 is being deprecated from Red Hat Storage 3.0 Update 4. Further updates will not be provided for samba-3.x. It is recommended that you upgrade to Samba-4.x, which is provided in a separate channel or repository, for all updates including the security updates.
    • Downgrade of Samba from Samba 4.x to Samba 3.x is not supported.
    • Ensure that Samba is upgraded on all the nodes simultaneously, as running different versions of Samba in the same cluster will lead to data corruption.
  2. Enable the channel where the Samba packages are available:
    1. If you have registered your machine using Red Hat Subscription Manager, enable the channel by running the following command: 
      # subscription-manager repos --enable=rh-gluster-3-samba-for-rhel-6-server-rpms
    2. If you have registered your machine using Satellite server, enable the channel by running the following command: 
      # rhn-channel --add --channel rhel-x86_64-server-6-rh-gluster-3-samba