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NOTE - This page only concerns Open-AudIT running from a Linux server and auditing Windows machines. If you use Open-AudIT installed on a Windows machine, you are free to ignore this.

Redhat / Centos 6 issue

NOTE #2 - Because of this SMB2 requirement, going forward support for running Open-AudIT as a server on Centos 6  / Redhat 6 will be deprecated. The Samba version shipped on those Operating Systems is too old to include SMB2 support. There is a package called samba4-client, but this conflicts with the regular samba package. Hence the deprecation of supporting Centos / Redhat 6 in the short term future.

UPDATE - There is a work-around available for getting SMB2 support on RedHat / Centos 6. This is specifically not enabled by default or in the installer. This could possibly cause Samba to stop working on your Open-AudIT server, so if you are using that server for services other than Open-AudIT, I can't say I'd recommend this. But if Open-AudIT is the only service on your Redhat / Centos 6 machine, read on.

First you'll need to remove the old Samba packages.

yum erase samba-common samba-libs samba-client

Next installe the newer packages.

 yum install samba4-common samba4-client

I'd still very much recommend upgrading to Centos / RedHat 7 instead.

How does this affect Open-AudIT?

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