From owner-freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Sun Jul 5 15:12:53 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C1BC9F0A for ; Sun, 5 Jul 2015 15:12:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from douhisi.pair.com (douhisi.pair.com [209.68.5.179]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A8E311A8 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 2015 15:12:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from [10.2.2.1] (pool-173-48-121-235.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [173.48.121.235]) by douhisi.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 50CD63F6F3 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 2015 11:12:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <5599496C.6010702@sneakertech.com> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 11:12:44 -0400 From: Quartz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD FS Subject: A question about ZFS built-in SMB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 15:12:53 -0000 Assuming the following: - A server running FreeBSD 10.1 - A ZFS pool with no restrictions on how it can be set up - Clients running Windows XP/Vista/7/8 - The need for a "public share" with two main directories, which we'll call 'stuff' and 'dropbox'. Anonymous guest users have read/write access to 'dropbox', and read-only access to 'stuff' as well as being restricted in which files and directories they can even see there. Admin-class users have full permissions and visibility to both directories. Is installing Samba still a requirement, or is ZFS's built-in SMB sharing complete and robust enough now to be able to handle everything natively? (Alternatively, is SMB itself even still a requirement or are there other options these days (that don't require installing software or custom configs on the clients))?