net/samba maintainer here, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us writes:
> I have a few machines stuck on 5.9 with samba 4.1 running as a domain > controller. It seems i can't really upgrade these machines to 6.0 and > most likely 6.1 as samba 4.4 forces the use of s3fs which requires posix > ACL's. I was wondering if anyone else has the same issue or has heard of > anything lately that might resolve this in the future? AFAIK samba 4.4+ doesn't actually require the use of filesystem-level ACLs. With s3fs, ACLs and Extended Attributes can be emulated with the appropriate modules. These days I'm staying away from samba 'cause I can't properly test it, but iirc this: xattr_tdb:file = /var/samba/xattr.tdb in smb.conf/[global] was enough last time I checked. The appropriate modules should be autodetected (you can see them with testparm). I am looking for more feedback from people that actually use samba on OpenBSD, especially as domain controller. If you perform tests and report back, that would be great. Preferably on -current which provides samba-4.5. > Maybe as a stop > gap it would make sense to have two versions of samba in the tree? one > new one, and one being the last supported version that can still use > ntvfs? No, ntvfs/s3fs shouldn't be an actual problem. There are additional reasons, like sanity. :) -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
