File share on the pfsense box

newbieuser1234

Does anyone know if it's possible to host a file share on the pfsense box? Thanks.

It is not recommended but you can manually compile samba on it.

gderf

Really? I didn't think stock pfsense came with a compiler and the rest of the build environment.

heper

it doesn't

stephenw10

Indeed

It is not recommended but you can manually compile samba for it.

Would be more accurate.

Steve

@gderf:

Really? I didn't think stock pfsense came with a compiler and the rest of the build environment.

I think one is able to get those binaries (gcc, make, etc) from FreeBSD distro.

johnpoz

Couldn't you just grab the freebsd packages for samba - I don't think you would have to compile anything?

Now i run 2.1 of pfsense which is 8.3 so I would think I could just do a pkg_add -r```
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.3-release/All/samba35-3.5.11.tbz

marcelloc

This is a tutorial for installing samba on pfsense

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,57475.msg306733.html#msg306733

johnpoz

^ I just added details from that forum post to the docs under howtos

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Samba

Will clean it up and verify it works as stated later