In OS X Mavericks, Apple will begin migrating from its own legacy Apple Filing Protocol to Microsoft's SMB2 in an effort to enhance performance, security and cross platform file sharing. Macs running ...

I am beginning to wonder just how much quality assurance work Apple put into its latest Mac operating system: Mac OS X 10.9, Mavericks. Sure, Mavericks can make Macs faster, but did anyone test it to ...

Apple will be replacing its longstanding AFP networking technology with SMB2 as the default networking protocol in OS X Mavericks. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

Server Message Block or SMB is a protocol used for file sharing. It provides the Read and Write operations on network devices. This is widely used while a user is accessing a Linux-based Server. The ...

The Samba team isn't expecting to release Samba 4 until the first half of 2011 (optimistically) but work on support for Microsoft's SMB2 -- and older SMB/CIFS -- has moved ahead quite nicely. Samba ...

Microsoft has issued a formal security advisory to confirm the remote reboot flaw in its implementation of the SMB2 protocol, going a step further to warn that a successful attack could lead to remote ...