[Samba] How secure is SMB3 over internet?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Oct 19 18:17:42 UTC 2018


On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 08:04:59PM +0200, jmqaodmthr1acosyg--- via samba wrote:
> Hello,
> How secure is SMB3 over Internet? I see that Microsoft Azure is doing SMB3 shares over internet so they seem to think it's secure.
> Does the SAMBA team recommend this type of scenario OR do they recommend instead running it over a SSH tunnel/VPN?

So long as you're using SMB3_11 and encrypted transport
it's secure.



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