ZFS on Linux SMB Sharing

Having worked on and liked ZFS for a long time I am now using ZFS on my main Linux desktop. I thought it would be nice if I can just turn on SMB sharing using ZFS but after playing with this for a while I gave up. Seems like one person on the Internet said it best just let ZFS take care of the file-system and let Samba take care of SMB sharing. I came to the same conclusion. I am recording some of my notes and commands for my reference maybe someone else find it useful.

Un-mount the old ext4 partition and create a pool. Of course don”t create a pool on a disk you have DATA on!

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# umount /DATA
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# fdisk -l | grep sd
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# zpool create -m /DATA DATA /dev/sdb1
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# zpool create -f -m /DATA DATA /dev/sdb1

Turn sharing on the ZFS way.

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# apt install samba
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# zfs set sharesmb=on DATA
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# pdbedit -a rrosso

I get parameter is incorrect from a Windows client. Gave up on this and shared using smb.conf.

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# zfs set sharesmb=off DATA
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# zfs get sharesmb DATA
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NAME  PROPERTY  VALUE     SOURCE
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DATA  sharesmb  off       local
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# tail -10 /etc/samba/smb.conf
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[DATA]
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path = /DATA
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public = yes
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writable = yes
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create mask = 0775
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directory mask = 0775
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# systemctl restart smbd
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# net usershare list
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# testparm
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{..}
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[DATA]
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  create mask = 0775
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  directory mask = 0775
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  guest ok = Yes
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  path = /DATA
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  read only = No

Note some commands and locations for troubleshooting.

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# smbstatus
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# testparm
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# cat /etc/dfs/sharetab
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# net usershare list
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# ls /var/lib/samba/usershares/
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# cat /var/lib/samba/usershares/data
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# pdbedit -L