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Date:      Thu, 18 May 2017 18:22:35 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freeBSD.org, Bob Eager <rde@tavi.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: smbfs and SMB1
Message-ID:  <665caabc-cf2d-7f6a-2187-465907ea6ae7@FreeBSD.org>

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Hi Bob;

> I have just disabled SMB1 on some Windows machines on the network.
>
> I find that (as far as I can see) I can no longer mount shares on the
> machines from FreeBSD, using smbfs.
>
> Is it the case that smbfs supports ONLY SMB1? Or is there a workround?
>
> Someone will probably mention Samba. Yes, I use Samba as a server on
> some machines, but the ones in question are clients and do not have
> Samba installed (and I don't quite see how to use it as a transparent
> client anyway).
>
> Help, please!

Sadly smbfs in contrib/ only supports the old version of the protocol 
(SMB1).

I understand Microsoft recommends disabling SMB1 due to the ransomware 
attacks.

I haven't used samba but indeed that should be the solution.

Pedro.





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