On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 08:03:13AM +0200, Martin Hochreiter
wrote:> Hi Samba list!
>
> I was very excited that SMB2 is finally working with samba 3.6.0 -
> great job!!
>
> I just know that SMB2 has a smaller command set compared to SMB1 and
> this, beside
> many other rebuilds of the code makes it faster
>
> As I am completely new to the file transfer protocol world, I want
> to ask a few basic things:
>
> - is Samba backward compatible ... xp can't use SMB2 as far as I
> read, but the shares
> are still working...
SMB2 is an option that client and server negotiate at
connection setup. XP just does not negotiate it.
> - how do I see that a windows client is using SMB2 and not SMB1
At this moment you need to look at network traces using
wireshark.
> - Do I need XFS or ext4 for better performance in combination with
> SMB2 or
> is this irrelevant
It should be irrelevant. Semantically both protocols are
very similar, it might just be that clients show different
behaviour that is better being served by XFS or ext4.
> - Is SMB2 more "secure" than SMB1?
No.
Volker
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