The company, which said earlier this week that it would also license its Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, will license the SMB file-sharing protocol later this summer, Microsoft spokesman ...

Server 2008 R2 defaults to a maximum 1-megabyte MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit), but the protocol specification permits even higher values. Microsoft estimates a 30% to 40% gain versus SMB 2.0 in file ...

Systems administrators should get ready to fix a critical vulnerability on April 12 that affects the Windows and Samba implementations of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. The vulnerability was ...

For sharing large files at home, I look no further than using the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol on my machines. I was okay with transferring GBs worth of several ISOs of operating systems, ...

Microsoft explained in a Wednesday announcement that it didn't actually remove Server Message Block 1 (SMB1) from Windows releases. SMB1 is a deprecated and insecure Windows component still used by ...

SMB was originally developed for Windows OS but a later software implementation called Samba made it possible for SMB to be used on Mac OSs or UNIX. Server message blocks run on top of TCP/IP, via ...

SMB (Server Message Block) is a network protocol that is used to share access to files, printers and serial ports between a Linux or Unix computer and a Windows computer. NFS (Network File System) is ...

Although this month's two-patch security bundle is small, the patches repaired critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft's XML Core Services and Server Message Block Protocol, which affect several ...

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 ...