smbfs and SMB1

[Pedro Giffuni]

Hi Bob;

> I have just disabled SMB1 on some Windows machines on the network.
>
> I find that (as far as I can see) I can no longer mount shares on the
> machines from FreeBSD, using smbfs.
>
> Is it the case that smbfs supports ONLY SMB1? Or is there a workround?
>
> Someone will probably mention Samba. Yes, I use Samba as a server on
> some machines, but the ones in question are clients and do not have
> Samba installed (and I don't quite see how to use it as a transparent
> client anyway).
>
> Help, please!

Sadly smbfs in contrib/ only supports the old version of the protocol 
(SMB1).

I understand Microsoft recommends disabling SMB1 due to the ransomware 
attacks.

I haven't used samba but indeed that should be the solution.

Pedro.