Re: gvfs, samba

["Tom Spindler (moof)" <dogcow%babymeat.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 07:54:19AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 06:14:23PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > I'm ok with leaving samba3 in pkgsrc for a while if people really want
> > it, but I don't think it should be depended on by default.
> 
> Samba 3 is practically useless nowadays (you have to jump through hoops to
> make it useable on most clients), but on the other hand it is a lot
> less resource intensive (at runtime) - but I bet most people installing
> it on a file server would not run into any problems with that ;-)

FWIW, you *can* build samba4 without all the AD domain controller stuff
and just use it in nmbd+smbd mode; I have a local patch to do just that
(--without-ad-dc, mostly) and it seems to work without issues.