I'm heavily invested in SONOS kit. I even offered to help them add SMB2+ support to their existing products (they didn't take me up on the offer of help).

Announcing this without having a plan to separate "legacy" models to keep them working whilst adding new features to new kit strikes me as a corporate suicide note.

The social media fury will be strong on this one... :-).

Argh. Typo.

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Bloody /. comments with no comment editing system :-). Join the 19th Century guys..

fopen() is a library call. Samba uses the underlying system calls like openat().

We don't use the Gnome filesystem layer. The Gnome filesystem layer uses the Samba libsmbclient to expose remote SMB1/2/3 servers are local filesystems.

We do have a ZFS VFS module, but it's only about exposing the native ZFS ACLs as Windows ACLs.

It certainly doesn't destabilize Samba.

> Neither protocol offers any meaningful security as far as I'm aware.

This isn't true. SMB3.11 implements transport level encryption with man-in-the-middle negotiation protection.

It's so secure that Microsoft allows direct access via SMB3.11 into the Azure cloud.

You don't need to fork the code - at least not yet. The SMB1 server is still built in, it's just no longer available by default.

In time I really want to start removing that code however, as it really complicates the underlying NTFS emulation layer inside the smbd server code.

We can be a lot cleaner and nicer as a server if we can ditch the horrid old SMB1 emulation layer.

Actually we're pretty friendly to new contributors, although the bar is higher now then it used to be years ago to get code accepted. If you want to help please.submit patches to our gitlab repo. If they pass the CI tests.ill be happy to evaluate and give feedback on them.

Cheers,

Jeremy Allison,
Samba Team.

You can. Chromebooks have "developer mode" which allows you control of the box yourself. It's required by the licenses of the code inside.

Yeah, I afree about the anti-features. It has one really good feature though, in that it uses libsmbclient to access a local fileshare, then re-exports it as a web interface to allow media players to use it. That's a killer feature for me.

I think vlc on Android can also do this, but they ship their own SMB client code I think.

I actually don't use a Chromebook myself, I have a Linux laptop instead so can't give you screenshots.

For single sign-on you'll need to have your Chromebook joined to the AD Domain (also using Samba underneath).

Reconnection on restart isn't there yet, but is an obvious enhancement to consider (don't want to comment on future product plans).

No problem. Samba is still a really fun and interesting program to work on ! I'm going to be up in Redmond next week working with Microsoft engineers on adding POSIX compatibility to SMB3+ and then at the SNIA Conference in Santa Clara, CA the week after giving a couple of talks, and attending the SMB3 plugfest (where we get to work out all the interoperability bugs with other engineers working on SMB).

https://www.snia.org/events/st...

See you there ! :-).

It uses the smb url syntax that the Gnome nautilus and KDE file browers use. See here for details:

https://www.samba.org/samba/do...

Although the smb:// bare syntax for browsing won't work as NetBIOS is (or should be) dead, dead, dead :-).

I personally use ES file explorer on my Android devices. It has libsmbclient built in (although they make you pay rent to get access to SMB2, which I think is a bit of a crock personally).

I watch movies & TV on my tablet PC at home using this.