Future of SAMBA on FreeBSD

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Fri, September 15, 2017 11:02 am, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions
wrote:
> Will SAMBA 4.6+ ever be able to provision a DC on FreeBSD?  The last
> bit of information I am aware of on this issue is that there is some
> problem with name-spacing that impacts the special attributes used by
> Windows User Profiles.  It is described as a 'difficult' problem to
> solve on FreeBSD. https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12912
>
> There is a patch provided at
> https://attachments.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=13391 which
> short-circuits the difficulty but apparently has possible security
> issues.  Has anyone here applied this patch, built and successfully
> provisioned a DC using Samba-4.6+ on FreeBSD-11?
>

I would ask these questions port maintainer directly. To find out how to
contact port maintainer:

cd /usr/ports/net/samba46

make maintainer


Good luck!

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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