despirate help needed - Samba and security = share

[Tom H]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Gary Stainburn
<gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk> wrote:
> On Friday 23 January 2015 17:54:26 Philip Keogh wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>>> On Friday 23 January 2015 15:59:48 Gary Stainburn wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm now installing Fedora 16 on my server and am going to re-do the last
>>>> 4 days work
>>>
>>> Of course, my next problem is that yum no longer works, presumably
>>> because there are no repositories left. Is this true, or are there still
>>> some out there that I can use?
>>
>> Of course this should never be used in production or exposed to the
>> internet, but there is a repository you can use:
>> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything
>>/x86_64/os/
>>
>> For help adding the repository to that version of Fedora, see
>> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/System_Administrators_Gu
>>ide/sec-Managing_Yum_Repositories.html
>
> I've updated my server to F17 and then tried to do a yum update. This has also
> failed, so I've tried your suggestion, replacing 16 with 17. I then added the
> public key, but I still cannot do yum updates:
>
> Can anyone suggest what to do next to get updates working?
>
> [root at eddie-new ~]# yum update
> Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
> Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: fedora. Please verify its path
> and try again
> [root at eddie-new ~]# yum-config-manager --add-repo
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/x86_64/os/
> Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
> adding repo from:
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/x86_64/os/
>
> [dl.fedoraproject.org_pub_archive_fedora_linux_releases_17_Everything_x86_64_os_]
> name=added from:
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/x86_64/os/
> baseurl=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/x86_64/os/
> enabled=1

You probably need to point to the F17 archives:

http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/17/Fedora/x86_64/os/