On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Steve French <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good point - I need to update the smb2 howto ... > > If you have Windows 2008, Windows Vista or Windows 7 - smb2 just works (it is > the default for current Windows) but for Samba (version 3.5 or later, but > current Samba 3.6 server is better and passes Microsoft's (and our) > functional tests as a server - the client side in the kernel is farther > behind) there is an smb.conf entry to add. A recent blog entry summarized > the server side for Samba: > > With Windows 7 Microsoft have introduce a new variant of the CIFS protocol, > SMB2. Samba is keeping pace, with a sample implementation of SMB2 which will > be released for early adopters to test in Samba 3.5.0. A fully finished > production version is expected to be available in Samba 3.6.0. Testing SMB2 > in Samba 3.5.0 is as simple as setting : > > max protocol = SMB2 > > in the [global] section of your smb.conf > > On the client side, you need smb2.ko from my smb2.git tree (which currently > has some changes I need to put in to address some sideeffects of the Google > Summer of Code smb2 async write performance improvements) - and if you don't > want to use ip addresses (mount -t smb2 //127.0.0.1/someshare /mnt .... etc) > then you need to recompile mount.cifs.c as mount.smb2 and put mount.smb2 in > /sbin > The smb2 development tree for the kernel client is at: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/smb2.git;a=summary > I have 3 patches from Pavel to integrate still and a few other fixes (one for > unmount in particular) that need to be posted. I expect it to be more stable > usable by next week (I have been out much of this week) > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Ben Greear <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> since SMB2 is more common with newer systems, and in particular > >> systems more likely to be running IPv6 and thus seem to export more > >> interfaces...am also interested in an SMB2 version of this (we will be > >> testing SMB2 extensively in three weeks at the annual Storage > >> Developer Conference) - smb2.git on kernel.org > > > > Is there a howto for configuring an smb2 server and client? > > > > I'm very slowly bisecting an O_DIRECT bug for NFS, but might > > can start working on smb2 while waiting for compiles. > > > -- > Thanks, > > Steve >
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