Not Strictly Linux - How To Do SMB2/SMB3 Efficiently With FreeBSD & Derivatives

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From	"25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net>
Subject	Not Strictly Linux - How To Do SMB2/SMB3 Efficiently With FreeBSD & Derivatives
Date	2022-08-23 00:57 -0400
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For all the pretense of 'superiority', the BSDs have a
serious problem with the modern world - they do not seem
to cope with the newer SAMBA standards ... SMB2/SMB3 ...
which most of your common NAS systems stick to these days
for good reasons.

An NAS is now COMMON - lots of commercial units, Sinology
seems most popular, and various free/semi-free variants.
However they ALL depreciate the insecure SMB1 protocol now.

FreeBSD and friends - indeed ALL BSDs apparently - are
STUCK a decade behind the times and offer NO good/fast
ways to access SMB2/SMB3 network shares. Yea, yea, you
can use a Gnome virtual file system and similar tricks
but all agree the PERFORMANCE is for CRAP (to put it
gently) and the set-up for automounting said shares
seems kinda insecure/bad/inflexible.

Google is of NO help here - spent many HOURS looking
around. Seems like the very idea of efficient/fast
SMB2/3 never penetrated the BSD mind despite all the
years that have passed, and security issues that have
appeared.

I'd like to build a very secure 'server' based on
FreeBSD or perhaps the even more anal OpenBSD  ..
and one requirement is to back up several existing
NAS systems and float a small DB to assist in
searching about 40tb worth of files dating back
into the mid 80s - by name/date/type and to some
extent content. This is a LOT of stuff and the
newer stuff changes quite a bit, quite often, as
people move big folders around on the source units.
Slow/insecure is NOT an option. SMB1 is OUT. GVFS
is OUT.

I'm left with hardening Debian, or maybe the Oracle
"unbreakable" Linux - but as it's a RH deriv I wonder
if it's now all alpha packages since IBM bought out
RH, just like Centos. (oh, and that HORRIBLE Gnome
desktop & accessory pack - GAK !!!).

Any words of wisdom here ???

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Not Strictly Linux - How To Do SMB2/SMB3 Efficiently With FreeBSD & Derivatives "25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net> - 2022-08-23 00:57 -0400
  Re: Not Strictly Linux - How To Do SMB2/SMB3 Efficiently With FreeBSD & Derivatives The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-08-23 10:56 +0100
    Re: Not Strictly Linux - How To Do SMB2/SMB3 Efficiently With FreeBSD & Derivatives "25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net> - 2022-08-25 01:41 -0400
      Re: Not Strictly Linux - How To Do SMB2/SMB3 Efficiently With FreeBSD & Derivatives The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-08-25 10:38 +0100
        Re: Not Strictly Linux - How To Do SMB2/SMB3 Efficiently With FreeBSD & Derivatives "25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net> - 2022-08-25 20:55 -0400
        Re: Not Strictly Linux - How To Do SMB2/SMB3 Efficiently With FreeBSD & Derivatives "25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net> - 2022-08-25 21:33 -0400

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