Longhorn Server - the little things mean a lot - SMB2 Protocol

re: Longhorn Server - the little things mean a lot - SMB2 Protocol

Matt Baldwin — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:29:48 GMT

This is excellent news. Look forward to it. Do you have any other information or docs on the changes made to SMB in SMB2? I'd be curious readnig more on it. Thanks.

-matt

re: Longhorn Server - the little things mean a lot - SMB2 Protocol

n00dles — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 04:46:57 GMT

Damn straight that's cool... I am struggling to see many reasons to upgrade clients to Vista (in an enterprise environment), but I'll be making sure we start dropping Longhorn Server as soon as it's RTM :-)

Even the Unix guys gave props when I told them you can now build a Windows server without a GUI - man that is a long overdue improvement!

re: Longhorn Server - the little things mean a lot - SMB2 Protocol

Kevin M. Owen — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:36:02 GMT

These new features sound great!

Would it be possible for you to expand on what you mean by "symbolic links over the new protocol?" Will junction points be able to target network shares?

Also, is there any chance of getting "Client Side Compression," so that a file that has NTFS compression turned on will be sent over the wire compressed and decompressed by the client, rather than decompressed by the server and then sent over the wire (and vice versa)?

re: Longhorn Server - the little things mean a lot - SMB2 Protocol

Jason — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:53:00 GMT

Sounds Cool!

Will SMB2 be a public free or licensable protocol?

re: Longhorn Server - the little things mean a lot - SMB2 Protocol

Mike — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:12:10 GMT

While I, as I'm sure you and everyone else sane, consider the original SMB protocol with its dozen+ variations to be quite a mess, I'd still like to see in writing:
1. Yes, we this time fully specified SMB2, and we did it good.
2. Yes, the specification will obviously be available to everyone and all from an RFC. (after all, wasn't that what MS tried to fool us all into with CIFS?)

re: Longhorn Server - the little things mean a lot - SMB2 Protocol

David — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:34:56 GMT

Also will it be backwards compatible to support old clients ?

re: Longhorn Server - the little things mean a lot - SMB2 Protocol

Richard Gadsden — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:44:51 GMT

Will you make enough information public for the samba team to be able to support SMB2?

re: Longhorn Server - the little things mean a lot - SMB2 Protocol

feroz — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:08:36 GMT

does any one know how to access a file share from windows vista / long horn server by ipv6 address...more over whether is there any support for ipv6 that microsoft has provided??