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Remember that Debian does not upgrade to major Samba versions. For example, Debian 12 is and will remain at 4.17.x. Debian Backports (Jun 24) is providing 4.19.6

Let's see where you are at. Example:

# As of June 2024
apt-cache policy samba
samba:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1
Version table:
   2:4.19.6+dfsg-3~bpo12+1 100
      100 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports/main amd64 Packages
   2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 500
      500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
      500 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security/main amd64 Packages
   2:4.17.9+dfsg-0+deb12u3 500
      500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates/main amd64 Packages

Check builds first, see what you can expect from this repo:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=samba&suite=bookworm-backports

For Debian 12, add this source:

echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Run:

apt-get update && apt-cache policy samba
samba:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2:4.17.10+dfsg-0+deb12u1
Version table:
   2:4.19.3+dfsg-1~bpo12+1 100
      100 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports/main arm64 Packages
   2:4.17.10+dfsg-0+deb12u1 500
      500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main arm64 Packages
   2:4.17.9+dfsg-0+deb12u3 500
      500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main arm64 Packages
      500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates/main arm64 Packages
      

We are not yet ready to install version 4.19.3, as apt-cache (candidate) insists on using 4.17. Therefore it is necessary to add -t bookworm-backports to the apt-get install command.

After that, you can proceed with the installation of either a DC or a member server.

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