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Date:      Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:54:51 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        "Andrew Falanga" <af300wsm@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: samba and IPv6
Message-ID:  <44abv22tx0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <340a29540706141239xa30c41fnff8b2bb1f31a9489@mail.gmail.com> (Andrew Falanga's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 13\:39\:29 -0600")
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"Andrew Falanga" <af300wsm@gmail.com> writes:

> On 6/14/07, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>> "Andrew Falanga" <af300wsm@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Does samba actually support this?  I'm not turning up much information
>> > from the "official HOW-TO" at samba.org.  In fact, not a single link
>> > in the HOW-TO even mentions IPv6.
>>
>> There's a link on the Samba front page from last week.
>> The short version is that it doesn't do it yet, and probably won't
>> until Samba 4 (which has other changes for interoperating with
>> Vista -- which is the first Windows to really do IPv6 well).
>> There are patch sets around if you're willing to get your hands
>> a bit dirty.
>
> Nope, don't mind getting my hands dirty (I do most of the work on my
> automobiles too).  However, I take it from this that because I must
> get my hands dirty, none of these patches are in the ports system?  I

As far as I can see, they are not.  

> ask because I noticed as I installed vim last night that many patches
> were downloaded along with the main vim tar-ball.

You could talk to the maintainer about that.  Samba4 probably isn't
ready to be added to the ports system anyway, but patches against
Samba3 seem to exist also.  



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