smbfs and SMB1

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 18 May 2017 18:22:35 -0500
Pedro Giffuni <pfg at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I understand that, and that was the impetus for asking.

I need the functionality of smbfs. If I disable SMB1 on the Windows
machines, I can't access them from FreeBSD any more.