SMB share setup?

Good afternoon,
I have a ZFS based file server at my son’s place for remote backup. I want to share out some space for his use and he’s a Windows/Mac/* “shop” so I plan to set up SMB shares for their needs.

The ‘*’ is for miscellaneous equipment like a Firestick, smart TV, game consoles and so on. I think those will only work with SMB otherwise I’d just ask if he can use NFS for the Windows machines and his wife’s Mac.

I’ve done some searching and I’m aware of some sort of SMB support for ZFS but unclear how to set that up. My searches pretty much all list articles 5 years old or older and which describe setting up Samba. Is that how it’s done? I thought that ZFS supported native SMB shares (or am I mistaken about that?)

Are they configured similarly to NFS shares?

Thanks!

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zfs use os apps (nfs-server+samba) for sharing nad the sharesmb/sharenfs is just another layer between so you could edit smb.conf or exports files directly usually like on linux without zfs.

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