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ntadmin / DGND3700v2

Custom firmware for the Netgear DGND3700v2
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Update samba to latest version #50

Open ntadmin opened 7 years ago

ntadmin commented 7 years ago

As we are working on the file sharing, it would be good to move to an up to date samba implementation.

ntadmin commented 7 years ago

One extra reason for doing this is that the Netgear source code, very late in the process, forces it's samba conf files into place. It would be good to get full control of this, as we can then control the process fully.

vezza commented 7 years ago

Very good! :-)

ntadmin commented 7 years ago

Unfortunately, the latest version require the use of python and have a very complex cross-compile process. A couple of hours of picking through it and I'm still not able to configure it. The python requirement may be a killer because it looks like packages are no longer available for the OS you need to use to compile the firmware. I'll keep thinking about it!