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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft this week started publishing a list of devices and software products that use Server Message Block 1 (SMB 1). The insecure and long-deprecrated SMB 1 protocol made headlines last month in ...

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 has patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its Server Message Block (SMBv3) protocol and is urging organizations to deploy updates for the flaw as soon as possible.

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 ...

One of the ways in which Server 2008’s new version of the Server Message Block protocol improves performance over the original version of SMB is through something called “opportunistic locking,” or ...

Samba is a remarkable piece of engineering. It provides directory tree browsing and sharing; disk, file and printer sharing; WINS resolution; and Windows domain client authentication. It runs under ...

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 ...