Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 20:22:00 +0300 From: Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deprecating smbfs(5) and removing it before FreeBSD 14 Message-ID: <CALH631=QMmNFnTfCnOEGNmW5dBa1oNFeg9OWTvVkPdM8bVfBFA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8d25d2f4-24e2-5b19-5c81-2fe12dc937b7@quip.cz> References: <CAPyFy2CJKxMQQKwD3N=MTe-P4KodN77e3YCEh4z0Ssf9sXWEcQ@mail.gmail.com> <8d25d2f4-24e2-5b19-5c81-2fe12dc937b7@quip.cz>
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--0000000000005cc94d05cf6cf465 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 6:39 PM Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote: > I am working for one company where smbfs is heavily used to connect > Windows / MacOS / Linux / FreeBSD (12.2) machines and we are really sad > that FreeBSD's mount_smbfs does not support SMBv2 / SMBv3 protocols (so > we are using SMBv1 with all the risk). I tried fusefs alternatives from > the ports tree in the past but it never worked as is needed. From our > point of view smbnetfs cannot replace mount_smbfs. > I cannot found any good examples of how to configure it to mount about > 20 shares from /etc/fstab on boot as user root from different hosts with > different login, passwords and mount options to defined mount points. > Everything seems to be very differently designed to work for non-root > user with configuration in users home, not system wide and mounting in > some strange hierarchy. (and bad performance was cited by many on other > platforms too) > It was discussed in the past in some other FreeBSD mailinglist that it > is not so easy to implement SMBv2 in to mount_smbfs. But is there any > possibility to make it as some sponsored work? What about FreeBSD > Foundation? There were some paid projects in the past. Or some other > bounty program. Is there anybody who have the skill to implement it if > there is good amount of $? > > If I am "well informed" FreeBSD is the only widely used OS not > supporting SMBv2. (MacOS, Linux, Solaris have it supported) > I will be really glad "if somebody can fix it" in the base. > > (or at least document how to use smbnetfs the way mount_smbfs is used) > > Kind regards > Miroslav Lachman > > I'm also aware of a local company that actively uses smbfs. Removing it would probably cause them to switch to Linux, which is a pity. --0000000000005cc94d05cf6cf465--
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