The Samba team isn't expecting to release Samba 4 until the first half of 2011 (optimistically) but work on support for Microsoft's SMB2 -- and older SMB/CIFS -- has moved ahead quite nicely. Samba ...

Apple will be replacing its longstanding AFP networking technology with SMB2 as the default networking protocol in OS X Mavericks. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

In OS X Mavericks, Apple will begin migrating from its own legacy Apple Filing Protocol to Microsoft's SMB2 in an effort to enhance performance, security and cross platform file sharing. Macs running ...

While not quite a patch, Microsoft updated its security advisory by telling users to cut support for the SMBv2 protocol, accompanied by a link to the Microsoft "Fix It" package disabling the SMBv2 ...

SMB, Connecting Protocols, and BranchCache So we’ve been discussing SMB (Server Message Block) 2.x and its various benefits, but so far we haven’t talked about how the new file-sharing protocol works ...

Long the moody loner of network file services, Microsoft's SMB protocol is growing up and learning to play nice. This is one time "new & improved" really means it. Fixing the old The most common ...

Microsoft has issued a formal security advisory to confirm the remote reboot flaw in its implementation of the SMB2 protocol, going a step further to warn that a successful attack could lead to remote ...

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Microsoft explained in a Wednesday announcement that it didn't actually remove Server Message Block 1 (SMB1) from Windows releases. SMB1 is a deprecated and insecure Windows component still used by ...