How to test SMB3 using Samba?

[Aaron E.]

My thread was HI-Jacked!!!!


On 05/09/2012 10:44 AM, peixing.sun at emc.com wrote:
> Hi Jeremy:
>
> Thanks for your information.
>
> But Window 8 and SMB3 will be released late 2012,  EMC will also release new products that support SMB3.
> It's too late to get Samba to support SMB3 "over a year or so"
>
>
> Peixing
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jra at samba.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 10:41 AM
> To: Sun, Peixing
> Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: How to test SMB3 using Samba?
>
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 09:56:04AM -0400, peixing.sun at emc.com wrote:
>> SMB3 (originally named as SMB2.2) will be shipped later this year with Windows 8.
>> I found that Samba3 or Samba4 doesn't support SMB3, I didn't find any plan to do so.
>>
>> Could somebody provide information if Samba support SMB3 now?  if now, what is the plan?
>
> You're in the wrong place :-). You should be here
> at the SambaXP conference where Michael and Metze
> are in the middle of their talk describing how we
> are planning to do this :-).
>
> Short answer - no currently shipping production
> releases (Microsoft Windows included) currently
> support SMB3 (it'll be in Windows8). We're planning
> to implement it inside Samba over the next year
> or so.
>
> Jeremy.
>
>