Re-reading your message, I realise I may have misunderstood your question. My previous advice would only be a good idea if you were migrating the Samba servers to OpenBSD as well. I am now thinking that that was not what you were suggesting, so please ignore my previous comment and apologies.
On 5/15/17, Wiremu Demchick <william.demch...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I was making the transition you are attempting, I would migrate to > FFS. Then, there would be no trouble regarding read/write ability. > In my experience, FFS is been stable and reliable. If you are > investing in moving to OpenBSD, that would be my recommendation. > > On 5/14/17, Kim Blackwood <bluechildcry...@yandex.com> wrote: >> Hi, I am in the process of migrating to OpenBSD on personal usage and in >> myoffice as well, but I need some advice. Both at home and in the office >> we have several Linux boxes runningSamba. Originally because we had some >> Windows machines, but now it'sjust a very convenient and easy way to run >> with different shares withdifferent groups and permissions and it's tuned >> so it's running veryfast. We also have a bunch of external drives with >> EXT4 and some with XFS. Normally I run Arch and Debian and I have no >> problem with the abovesetup. However, migrating to OpenBSD on my personal >> laptop and desktopI suspect will give me some problems mounting both >> Samba shares andexternal drives. We could change the file systems on the >> external drives to say EXT2 ifthat's a "good" idea or NTFS if that's >> better supported, I don't know.Both read and write access is needed. The >> Samba boxes aren't going to change as to many people use those. Iremember >> something about sharity-light in the past, but that was notvery good back >> then. How do you guys do it? Is it even doable running only OpenBSD on >> myboxes in such an environment? Thank you for your time. Kind regards, >> Kim >> >
