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

[Marlon A. Griffith]

I heartily agree.


On 06/11/2013 11:43 AM, Donald Duff-McCracken wrote:
> 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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