Samba upgrade on V3.X firmware?

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Dumb question…looks like “smbstatus” command doesnt exist on my firmware so i cant tell which verion of samba i’m running. How can i check sambe version.

ALso from these forums it looks like that newer samba in the new 4.X verison is faster?

I’m wondering can i simply upgrade samba on my existing 3.x FW ?

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Found this, but it looks like that samba is not installed on my drive? Hows that possible. Or does does WD has its own samba version.

nas1:/shares/personal# apt-cache policy samba
samba:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u4
  Version table:
     2:3.6.6-6+deb7u4 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main armhf Packages

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ok so turns out my drive on FW3.x is already running the following

nas1:/shares/personal# smbd -V
Version 4.0.0rc5

Does anyone know, whats different in FW4.x then?

4

Hello there, 

I don’t have this information since i have not tried this, lets see if another user can share some tips regarding this matter. 

5

the later v4 FW seems better but no detials

you could not just place the V4 samba on v3 for to the pagesize change if no other reason.

6

I know we cant just take V4’s samba and put it on V3. I meant if there was a newer samba version that was faster in general that i could install on V3.

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alirz1 wrote:

I know we cant just take V4’s samba and put it on V3. I meant if there was a newer samba version that was faster in general that i could install on V3. 

The samba versions are the same.

Both the (later) 3.x versions and 4.x are using Samba 4.0.0rc3.