Since Samba 3.6 finally became end-of-life on FreeBSD, I’ve been forced to upgrade to Samba 4 on my servers. Luckily, it was a relatively painless update. # portmaster ‑o net/samba43 samba36‑3.6.25_1 # mv /usr/local/etc/smb.conf /usr/local/etc/smb4.conf # mv /usr/local/etc/samba/* /var/db/samba4/private/ Finally, in /etc/rc.conf replace samba_enable=“YES” with samba_server_enable=“YES”. You can now restart Samba with the command: # […]