smbfs and SMB1

[Miroslav Lachman]

Pedro Giffuni wrote on 2017/05/19 01:22:
> 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.

I am not suru but I think Samba does not provide CIFS/SMBFS mount 
binaries. There is just ftp-like client.
FreeBSD is used in networks for filesharing, storage etc. and I feel SMB 
mount is very vital feature.

Miroslav Lachman