My Red Hat Enterprise Edition 4 comes with Samba Version 3.0.10, which does not have support for the "inherit owner" attribute that is essential in implementing a Deny-Delete Write Once Read Many share (for examples, search google for a-shared-drop-box-using-samba).

(BTW, if any body knows an alternative way to do it without updating samba, I'm all ears!)

I am not all that comfortable building from source, and after hours of googling (no, I do not have a red hat subscription, so I cannot just run the up2date command), I found a whole bunch of rpms on http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/tested/rhel/4/i386/ (Samba 3.2.15 for RHEL 4)...

Next, I tried updating them with the rpm -U --nodeps command, but I got file conflict errors. So I went ahead and overwrote everything (or so I thought) by using the rpm's --force option. But no good has come of all that. /usr/sbin/smbd -V still returns the old version.

As of now, rpm -qa | grep samba returns,

samba3-client-3.2.15-40.el4
samba-3.0.10-1.4E.2
samba-client-3.0.10-1.4E.2
system-config-samba-1.2.21-1
samba3-3.2.15-40.el4
samba-common-3.0.10-1.4E.2
samba3-winbind-3.2.15-40.el4

I cannot remove the older ones because

samba-common >= 3.0.8-0.pre1.3 is needed by (installed) gnome-vfs2-smb-2.8.2-8.2.x86_64
libsmbclient.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) kdebase-3.3.1-5.8.x86_64
libsmbclient.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) gnome-vfs2-smb-2.8.2-8.2.x86_64

Now thats a whole bunch of dependencies that I dare not touch :)

Any and all pointer are welcome at this stage. Thanks in advance!