[Samba] The sad state of samba 4 adaption for home/small business routers.

[Jeremy Allison]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 06:07:25PM +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> Unfortunately it seems it is using a really old version of samba
> 
> $ telnet x.x.x.x
> Trying x.x.x.x...
> Connected to x.x.x.x.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> F680
> Login: root
> Password:
> 
> BusyBox v1.01 (2015.04.27-11:59+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
> 
> / # uname -a
> /bin/sh: uname: not found
> / # /mnt/usb1_1_1/busybox uname -a
> Linux F680 3.4.69 #366 SMP Mon Apr 27 20:21:47 CST 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux
> / # smbd -v
> smbd: invalid option -- v
> Usage: smbd [-D] [-p port] [-d debuglevel] [-l log basename] [-s services
> file]
> Version 1.9.16p10
>         -D                    become a daemon
>         -p port               listen on the specified port
>         -d debuglevel         set the debuglevel
>         -l log basename.      Basename for log/debug files
>         -s services file.     Filename of services file
>         -P                    passive only
>         -a                    overwrite log file, don't append

Oh, you're hosed then :-). It's amazing that
this still works at all with modern Windows
systems.

As tridge and I used to say, "1.9.16 was
a good Samba vintage" :-).