The Samba team isn't expecting to release Samba 4 until the first half of 2011 (optimistically) but work on support for Microsoft's SMB2 -- and older SMB/CIFS -- has moved ahead quite nicely. Samba ...

Server Message Block (SMB) has been around for decades, powering Windows file shares and becoming a staple of enterprise networks. But in the last few years, it’s started riding on top of Quick UDP ...

RDMA networking has enabled high-performance computing for years, but Windows Server 2012 R2 with SMB Direct is bringing it to the mainstream. File-based storage has grown tremendously over the last ...

In an attempt to warn IT and consumers, Microsoft has released a list of products that are using the flawed Server Message Block 1 (SMB 1). The insecure and long-deprecrated SMB 1 protocol made ...

While not quite a patch, Microsoft updated its security advisory by telling users to cut support for the SMBv2 protocol, accompanied by a link to the Microsoft "Fix It" package disabling the SMBv2 ...

I was just reading about the new SMB 3.0 features that will be released with Server 2012 and Windows 8. One of the features that really has me intrigued is the new SMB Multichannel. SMB Multichannel ...

SMB: server message block; a Microsoft file and printer sharing protocol. CIFS: common Internet filesystem; around 1996, Microsoft decided that SMB needed the word Internet in it, so they changed it ...

Microsoft is working on Server Message Block (SMB) over QUIC technology for use with "Windows, Windows Server, and Azure Files," according to a Monday announcement. SMB over QUIC can serve as a ...

Two devastating global ransomware outbreaks, WannaCry and Petya, spread quickly because of a vulnerability in one of the internet's most ancient networking protocols, Server Message Block version 1 ...