![]() ![]() SMB3 (now the default for Mac OS 10.10) could have problems when interworking with machines that don’t have full support for SMB3. Many SMB issues are related to a mix of SMB protocols between clients. We have not seen the same issues with AFP or SMB1 (“CIFS” protocol prefix). On Mac OS X, we have seen ACL permissions problems with SMB2 and SMB3 with certain versions of OS X (early 10.9.x). ![]() We have not seen any issues with SMB on Windows clients, but have seen issues saving from Windows SMB to Mac OS X 10.11, these issues are not present when saving to 10.10 or 10.12. Apple has been struggling with it and it is still not as stable as it should be. When the licensing terms for Samba changed, Apple had to develop their own SMB implementation. ![]() Most versions of OS X prior to 10.7 relied on an open-source implementation of SMB called Samba for accessing Windows file shares and sharing files with Windows clients. SMB is Microsoft’s proprietary network file sharing protocol. It is more mature with Mac OS 10.10, 10.11 and beyond. SMB on Mac OS has been a moving target, but it is getting better. ![]()
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