[MacTUG] OS X Mavericks switches to SMB2 networking | MacFixIt

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

Wow, that is great! That should make talking to various file servers a lot
easier.

Mavericks, is the first upgrade since Snow Leopard that I have really been
looking forward to. The others have had a pretty high 'meh'-index ;-)
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On 2013-06-11 8:54 AM, "Marlon A. Griffith"
<m3griffi at engmail.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

>Along the line of Don's great things about 'Mavericks' link. 8-) This
>should be useful for us.
>
>Marlon
>-------------------
>
>"""
>... In OS X Mavericks, however, Apple will be including the newer SMB2
>protocol as the default protocol for sharing files, so even if you are
>connecting two Macs running OS X Maverick or later, unless you specify
>to use AFP, they will use SMB2.
>...
>
>SMB2 offers resource compounding, where the technology lumps multiple
>requests together, thereby reducing networking overhead. This results in
>far faster data transfers than AFP, NFS, SMB, and other contemporary
>networking protocols. Additionally, SMB2 makes optimal use of data
>caching and transparent reconnection to servers in the event of
>interruptions, and supports symbolic linking so aliases can point to
>different locations in a shared folder.
>
>For security, Apple will be making use of SMB2's support for Extended
>Authentication Security using Kerberos and NTLMv2 authentication schemes.
>...
>
>While Apple is transitioning to SMB2, OS X will continue to support SMB,
>AFP, FTP, and NFS protocols for legacy support, and will automatically
>switch to the most compatible protocol used by the system you are
>connecting to.
>
>http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57588593-263/os-x-mavericks-switches-
>to-smb2-networking/
>"""
>
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