On 13/03/2020 21:23, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
I think samba3 can be classed as crufty. Last patch (according to https://www.samba.org/samba/history/security.html) was in 2016 and there have been lots of security updates since then to various 4.x.x versions.The net/samba (3) and net/samba4 DESCR files do not give statements about if 3 is mainstream and 4 bleeding edge vs 3 crufty and 4 mainstream. I bet it's that 4 is normal now. Thoughts? Barring none, I'll perhaps do something after I investigate.
Samba 4.11.7 is the current stable release of samba. So it seems like dropping samba3 is reasonable. Its not an entirely pain free migration from samba 3 to 4 but I've not yet found anthing you can't do and I've used it as both a standalone server and as part of an active directory domain.
Mike