In this post I describe how to provide a file sharing service over the network with SMB2 (Samba). It’s a very simple example, with a Linux machine as the server and a Mac OSX as the client. I have another post about SMB and QNAP that is very similar. …
What are “SMB”, “CIFS”, “Samba” and the version confusion? SMB (Server Message Block) is an application-level network protocol that enables sharing of files, printers, and other resources between devices on a network. Originally developed by IBM in the 1980s, it was later adopted and extensively improved by Microsoft, becoming the foundation of file sharing in Windows networks. The SMB protocol has evolved through multiple versions over the years. SMB1 (also known as SMBv1 or NetBIOS) was the initial implementation but had security and performance limitations. Microsoft introduced significant improvements with SMB2 in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, and later SMB3 with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, with each version adding better performance, improved security, and new features like data encryption and compression. …