Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 10:30:24 -0500 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: User Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "Gerard E. Seibert" <jerry@seibercom.net> Subject: Re: Updating Samba Message-ID: <64CBDD55-0D81-4B22-A395-5ED586243D1D@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <20230129100719.00007b05@seibercom.net> References: <20230129065751.00004501@seibercom.net> <4d321d14-354b-c6d2-83fa-45d36bad7f7a@netfence.it> <20230129100719.00007b05@seibercom.net>
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On Jan 29, 2023, at 10:07 AM, Gerard E. Seibert <jerry@seibercom.net> = wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2023 14:14:42 +0100, Andrea Venturoli stated: >> On 1/29/23 12:57, Gerard E. Seibert wrote: >>=20 >>> Before I update to the newer version, I wonder if anyone else has >>> done so and if there are any gotchas I should be looking for? =20 >>=20 >> WRT to FreeBSD, if you're running Samba in a jail, you'll need=20 >> additional jail permissions for Samba in order for it to work. >>=20 >> Otherwise, this is more a question for Samba, than for FreeBSD. >> Samba has so many functions/options/deployment/etc... that it is=20 >> difficult to answer your question without additional info. >=20 > I am interested in knowing if my existing 'smb4.conf' file is still > valid or do I have to make major edits of it to work with the newer > version. I can find quite a bit about Samba and its improvements over > the years, but hardly anything when it comes to how Samba, especially > the newer versions, interact with FreeBSD. There appears to be forty = or > so patches applied to Samba 4.16.8. Obviously, Samba is not a simple > drop-in application on FreeBSD. I switched over to Samba 4.16 just by flipping DEFAULT_VERSIONS to = "samba=3D4.16" in my make.conf file used by Poudriere to build my = packages. I didn't have to make any changes to my existing smb4.conf = file, but then I don't do anything complicated with Samba. I've been using Samba 4.16 (on FreeBSD 13) since shortly after it became = available as a port. Cheers, Paul.=
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