Re: Deprecating smbfs(5) and removing it before FreeBSD 14

On 22/01/2022 23:20, Rick Macklem wrote:
> Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> wrote:
> [stuff snipped]
>> So I am looking at the Apple and Solaris code, provided by rick. I am not
>> sure if the illumos code provides SMB2 support. They based the solaris
>> code on Apple SMB-217.x which is from OSX 10.4 . Which I am sure
>> predates smb2 .
>>
>> https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/smb/tree/smb-217.19
>>
>> If I am following this correctly we need to look at Apple's smb client
>> from OSX 10.9  which is where I start to see bits about smb2
>>
>> https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/smb/tree/smb-697.95.1/kernel/netsmb
>>
>> This is also where this stuff starts to look less and less like FreeBSD .
>> Let me ask some of the illumos people I know to see if there is
>> anything they can point to.
> Yes. Please do so. I saw the "old" calls fo things like open and the
> new ntcreate version, so I assumed that was the newer SMB.
> If it is not, there is no reason to port it.
> 
> The new Apple code is a monster. 10x the lines of C and a lot of
> weird stuff that looks Apple specific.
> 
> It might actually be easier to write SMBv2 from the spec than port
> the Apple stuff.
> --> I'll try and look at whatever Microsoft publishes w.r.t. SMBv2/3.
> 
> Thanks for looking at this, rick

The docs are public:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-smb2/5606ad47-5ee0-437a-817e-70c366052962


Note that the spec is 480 pages, it is not a trivial protocol to 
implement from scratch.

David