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Date:      Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:47:40 GMT
From:      Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com>
To:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Cc:        theunusualmatt@gmail.com, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMBv1 Deprecation / SMBv2 support in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <201912191647.xBJGleRa028173@higson.cam.lispworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <b09c975c-e627-feca-a9a6-c01cddd5d848@quip.cz> (message from Miroslav Lachman on Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:12:00 %2B0100)
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>>>>> On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:12:00 +0100, Miroslav Lachman said:
> 
> I would like to resurrect this old thread from 2017-06 as I have the 
> need to use mount_smbfs on FreeBSD but this old implementation (still) 
> lacks support for SMB2/3.
> 
> I am not a developer so I cannot do any coding work. I would like to 
> know if somebody tried to add support for SMBv2 to FreeBSD? Is it really 
> hard to extend it to support SMB2? Or should it be implemented from scratch?
> I tried to find more on this topic in mailing lists and FreeBSD forums 
> without much success. I found that Apple open source has it. For example
> https://opensource.apple.com/source/smb/smb-759.40.1/kernel/smbfs/smbfs_smb_2.c.auto.html
> I know Apple kernel is too different but anyway - can it be ported to 
> FreeBSD in some way?
> 
> It is very sad that FreeBSD is so far behind competitors in some network 
> service where FreeBSD was very strong in the past.
> 
> CIFS/SMB2 is the only option in some heterogenous environments.

Have you tried using sysutils/fusefs-smbnetfs?  I don't know how fast it is,
but I think FreeBSD's FUSE has improved since that thread started.

__Martin



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