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0 pointselzbardico4y ago0 comments

Well. SMB is a Microsoft's proprietary protocol. Of course, the windows implementation will be better.

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Eh, Samba has been fine in the Linux world for many years.

It works. and it is impressive work what they've done, but let's face it, it is not even close to being as ergonomically and plug and play as it is on a windows only environment. It is a shame that microsoft still haven't truly make SMB an open protocol.

ygra4y ago

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols... Specifications seem to be available, though.

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Macha4y ago

Windows client -> Linux server has worked great for a long time.

Linux client -> Windows server has been less so

jsymolon4y ago

Agreed, and many thanks to the developers.

My pain is browsing over VPN is extremely slow. Probably my fault as getting Desktop (Debian) happy with all the certificates is painful.

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