I'm probably on to a bit of a loser here, but I figured I'd ask anyway. Is there still any sensible means of getting Samba v3.x for FreeBSD? I know it's ancient but I've periodically tried to get Samba v4.x working over the past couple of years or so and never succeeded. Now I'm in the process of a server upgrade I'm a bit, erm, disadvantaged in that Samba v3 has been retired.
V4.x is a non-starter: it doesn't really work with ZFS; it doesn't really work with LDAP; it doesn't sit well with my two-level myhost.mydomain DNS; it wants Kerberos which is one of those things I don't "do" because I could never get my head around that either; and it crashes constantly, but in such an undignified manner that I don't even get a core dump out of it (not that I'm in a mood to start wading through all that stuff though). And I've spent yet more time fighting with something that possibly still won't work unless I ditch ZFS and LDAP and reconfigure my internal DNS and it's not really worth it just for my Windows 10 games machine to be able to access stuff! And copying my old v3 config and secrets over worked as well as might be expected i.e. no authentication, reams of rather opaque error messages and a crash.
If Samba v3 really is unavailable from any reliable sources, is there an alternative SMB/CIFS server I can use, or a recommended "some other sort of client that doesn't cost actual money" for my W10 box? The latter may be even more gnarly as I understand that commercial or otherwise, Windows NFS clients are generally not awesome.
V4.x is a non-starter: it doesn't really work with ZFS; it doesn't really work with LDAP; it doesn't sit well with my two-level myhost.mydomain DNS; it wants Kerberos which is one of those things I don't "do" because I could never get my head around that either; and it crashes constantly, but in such an undignified manner that I don't even get a core dump out of it (not that I'm in a mood to start wading through all that stuff though). And I've spent yet more time fighting with something that possibly still won't work unless I ditch ZFS and LDAP and reconfigure my internal DNS and it's not really worth it just for my Windows 10 games machine to be able to access stuff! And copying my old v3 config and secrets over worked as well as might be expected i.e. no authentication, reams of rather opaque error messages and a crash.
If Samba v3 really is unavailable from any reliable sources, is there an alternative SMB/CIFS server I can use, or a recommended "some other sort of client that doesn't cost actual money" for my W10 box? The latter may be even more gnarly as I understand that commercial or otherwise, Windows NFS clients are generally not awesome.