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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2017 03:40:17 +0200
From:      Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
To:        Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-fs@freeBSD.org, Bob Eager <rde@tavi.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: smbfs and SMB1
Message-ID:  <591E4D01.9080600@quip.cz>
In-Reply-To: <665caabc-cf2d-7f6a-2187-465907ea6ae7@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <665caabc-cf2d-7f6a-2187-465907ea6ae7@FreeBSD.org>

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Pedro Giffuni wrote on 2017/05/19 01:22:
> 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.

I am not suru but I think Samba does not provide CIFS/SMBFS mount 
binaries. There is just ftp-like client.
FreeBSD is used in networks for filesharing, storage etc. and I feel SMB 
mount is very vital feature.

Miroslav Lachman



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