Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:39:03 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Default Samba port? Message-ID: <1321267143.51532.YahooMailNeo@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BQLa9CRsTKX-4j3b=9TqSdASejTvvGsYr-WmqfbR8Y-s2Bz4Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <83F75606-8C2C-45E6-A408-FC11C7306A06@googlemail.com> <CA%2BQLa9CRsTKX-4j3b=9TqSdASejTvvGsYr-WmqfbR8Y-s2Bz4Q@mail.gmail.com>
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________________________________ From: Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 10:36 AM Subject: Re: Default Samba port? On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Peter Harrison <four.harrisons@googlemail.com> wrote: > Can anyone advise me the appropriate Samba port to install - the handbook refers to samba34, but I see samba35 and samba36 in in ports. This is for a home server, so I'm not necessarily looking for production standard, but something that "just works" on RELEASE-8.2 amd64. samba36 is the current stable version. The other two are kept for legacy compatibility. 35 and 34 are the last version in those branches. Don't worry about them. The handbook has not been updated for two major revisions of samba. This is a comment for the others on the list, not directly at you: maybe ports like this should have a directory samba that always points to the most recent stable version. Then the handbook would not need to be updated to reflect version changes like this. It would only need to be updated if the actual instructions change or become outdated? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I second the motion. Then when you do something like whereis samba, it won't come back empty and force you to search in /usr/ports for the desired port directory. As for the original question, I'd install samba36, which is the latest port. The configuration is still the same as previous releases so go for the latest one. Samba has some security issues but it rocks as a file server for *nix machines. I've used it with great success to allow M$ clients to share files. I do not use it for print services however, only file sharing.
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