[Samba] How small can a compiled smbd/nmd be?

Lasse Lorenzen llz at bang-olufsen.dk
Thu Dec 3 06:51:59 MST 2009


Hi.

We have some interest in using samba as a file server on a small device, 
but we have some problems with low amount of space on our target machine, 
the question is how low can we go?

So far we have just made a quick samba packages that requires 22mb of 
space, however since we are not experts on samba, it could be us that are 
stupid :)
What we want to have is a:

Samba server that is discoverable by windows and osx machines.
only needs to support one user.
Just file write support, everything else as printing ect is irrelevant for 
our problem.

Can we compile a small version of samba that just gives us this, or is 
22mb (or similar) the best we can do?

If you need any more info, or have suggestions to other techs please let 
me know.

Best Regards
Lasse Lorenzen


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