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Microsoft Giving SMB2 Talks At SambaXP

Posted by kdawson on from the pinch-me dept.

Jeremy Allison - Sam writes "I'm not much for writing blog entries, but I thought Slashdot readers might like to know that Microsoft architects and testers are attending SambaXP and have been giving some wonderful talks on how the protocol document testing works, and on the design of SMB2 in order to work well on WAN links. Really interesting technical stuff. Pinch me, I'm back in 1994 and things are really fun again :-)."

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  1. Re:SMB2 talk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Are there any good NFS clients for Windows? Any that are free? Yes, there's Microsoft's own from their Services for Unix download or the Vista/2008 Subsystem for Unix applications.

  2. Re:SMB2 talk by Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam · · Score: 5, Informative

    The slides will be posted at the conference website, but they're not up yet. Not sure yet about audio/video.

    Jeremy.

  3. Re:SMB2 talk by EvilRyry · · Score: 4, Informative

    That only supports the crusty, insecure NFSv3. NFSv4 was released in 2000 (aka 8 freakin years ago) and has far better security and performance than v3. Microsoft has announced that they will not be updating SFU and will discontinue downloads in 2009.

    So the correct answer would be "no", Microsoft hates NFS because they don't control it.

  4. Re:SMB2 talk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Microsoft has announced that they will not be updating SFU and will discontinue downloads in 2009.




    Microsoft does some smarmy things, but in this case this is primarily just a name change. SFU -> SUA (and it comes standard on Vista/Server 2008)

    download link for SUA



    Being discontinued/desupported somewhat because the OSs that SFU runs on are being desupported. Surprising they want everyone to upgrade to Vista so they can make more money. LOL.



  5. Re:SMB2 talk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Almost. The separate download package that is Services for Unix is being discontinued. It is instead being shipped as a part of the OS and is available in both Vista and Windows Server 2008 without an additional download. As a result there is no need to ship a separate downloadable version going forward.