SMB2 not used with \\server\share but with \\server.domain\share

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Jun 13 17:01:32 MDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 15:35 +0200, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 21:43 +0200, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> >> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Zombie Ryushu wrote:
> > Firstly, to limit confusion, there is no such thing as SMBX.  But the
> > fact that all traffic is on port 445 is promising, as it has already
> > been found that windows refuses SMB2 traffic on port 139 (at least in
> > some situations):
> > http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2011-February/076394.html
> >
> > As to why a client would simply not choose SMB2 when connected to 445
> > and available, that is a mystery that we may need to ask Microsoft
> > about.
> 
> I was afraid of that answer because I think one can forget it asking (or 
> do you have some good contacts to Microsoft?).

Just for the record, we actually have very good contacts, and a their
protocol support team helps us out a lot these days. 

Andrew Bartlett

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