Re: Samba

It would seem to me that Ibm should distribute the samba "product" as an option in the new 5733OPS.
Doing so should make it easier to distribute PTFs for it.

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Bryan

On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:02 PM, Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I already know you are not using SAMBA since it requires significant actions to install/configure it. You'd know if you were using it.

The reason the normal PTF process (as we think of it with most LPPs) is not the same for WAS/SAMBA/Anyotheropensourceprogram is the code base is set up for the UNIX environment and that's how they do things. One code base is much easier to deal with than multiples.

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Jim Oberholtzer
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Subject: Samba

I get this "IBM My notifications - Operating Systems" email from IBM.
In it is a section "2. IBM i 7.1: Urgent support notifications (Recommended by IBM support)"
So I click on that and I see:

Security Bulletin: IBM i is affected by the following SAMBA vulnerabilities (CVE-2015-0240) March 23, 2015 Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in SAMBA..
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020638

So I click on that and I see:
The issue can be fixed by applying the SAMBA PTF to the IBM i System.
The IBM i PTF numbers are:
Release 7.2 – SI56213

Now I am thinking no big deal, just download and apply this PTF. Wrong.
When I read this cover letter I see that I have to use jar to unzip a file and run a bunch of other stuff.
Why do they do this crap with PTF's for stuff like Samba and WAS? Heck I don't even know if I'm using Samba. How do I tell? And how do I "restart the Samba server"?

Rob Berendt
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