SMBv1 Deprecation / SMBv2 support in FreeBSD

[Miroslav Lachman]

Martin Simmons wrote on 2019/12/19 17:47:
>>>>>> On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:12:00 +0100, Miroslav Lachman said:
>>
>> I would like to resurrect this old thread from 2017-06 as I have the
>> need to use mount_smbfs on FreeBSD but this old implementation (still)
>> lacks support for SMB2/3.
>>
>> I am not a developer so I cannot do any coding work. I would like to
>> know if somebody tried to add support for SMBv2 to FreeBSD? Is it really
>> hard to extend it to support SMB2? Or should it be implemented from scratch?
>> I tried to find more on this topic in mailing lists and FreeBSD forums
>> without much success. I found that Apple open source has it. For example
>> https://opensource.apple.com/source/smb/smb-759.40.1/kernel/smbfs/smbfs_smb_2.c.auto.html
>> I know Apple kernel is too different but anyway - can it be ported to
>> FreeBSD in some way?
>>
>> It is very sad that FreeBSD is so far behind competitors in some network
>> service where FreeBSD was very strong in the past.
>>
>> CIFS/SMB2 is the only option in some heterogenous environments.
> 
> Have you tried using sysutils/fusefs-smbnetfs?  I don't know how fast it is,
> but I think FreeBSD's FUSE has improved since that thread started.

I didn't tried it because what I read about it on forums is nothing 
good. Slow, unstable, not suitable for mounting 30+ shares on boot from 
fstab. Somebody reported speed with fusefs-smbnetfs less than 1Mbps.
Also I found somebody trying to use gvfs to access samba shares on 
headless servers but again it was something I don't want in production. 
It gvfs is also userspace for browsing not for permanent mounting on 
defined mount points.

I didn't find any other alternative in ports.

Kind regards
Miroslav Lachman