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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Thanks,

Steve
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