Re: Updating Samba

On Sun, 29 Jan 2023 14:14:42 +0100, Andrea Venturoli stated:
> On 1/29/23 12:57, Gerard E. Seibert wrote:
> 
> > 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?  
> 
> WRT to FreeBSD, if you're running Samba in a jail, you'll need 
> additional jail permissions for Samba in order for it to work.
> 
> Otherwise, this is more a question for Samba, than for FreeBSD.
> Samba has so many functions/options/deployment/etc... that it is 
> difficult to answer your question without additional info.

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.