Samba says its next release will switch off previously on-by-default support for the aging and easily subverted SMB1 protocol. It can be reenabled for those truly desperate to use the godforsaken deprecated protocol version.
The open-source SMB toolkit's developers say the Samba 4.11 build, currently in preview, will by default set SMB2_02 as the earliest supported version of the Windows file-sharing protocol.
"This means clients without support for SMB2 or SMB3 are no longer able to connect to smbd (by default)," the 4.11 release notes read.
"It also means client tools like smbclient and others, as well as applications making use of libsmbclient are no longer able to connect to servers without SMB2 or SMB3 support (by default)."
Admins will still have the option to allow SMB1 on their servers if they so choose, but support will be turned off by default.
The move by Samba to drop SMB1 can be seen as long overdue, given that Microsoft has been moving to get rid of the file-server protocol version from its operating systems for several years now, even before it was revealed to be one of the NSA's favorite weak points to exploit.
Do any Soylentils have any systems that will be affected by this? How hard is it for you to upgrade?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by darkpixel on Tuesday July 09 2019, @09:30PM
"Do any Soylentils have any systems that will be affected by this? How hard is it for you to upgrade?"
Yes. Every crap copier ever manufactured.