Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 00:40:13 +0100 From: Bob Eager <rde@tavi.co.uk> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: smbfs and SMB1 Message-ID: <20170519004013.0d332b9e@raksha.tavi.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <665caabc-cf2d-7f6a-2187-465907ea6ae7@FreeBSD.org> References: <665caabc-cf2d-7f6a-2187-465907ea6ae7@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 18 May 2017 18:22:35 -0500 Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > 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. Yes, I understand that, and that was the impetus for asking. I need the functionality of smbfs. If I disable SMB1 on the Windows machines, I can't access them from FreeBSD any more.
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