The Structure and Interpretation of the SMB Protocol
The Structure and Interpretation of the SMB Protocol
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9811078041 | 392 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 18 MB
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9811078041 | 392 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 18 MB
The analysis of the protocol in the book captures the detailed structure as well as the rationale behind the design. It illustrates the relationship between SMB protocol and other protocols in the context of the Microsoft Windows ecosystem as well as the assimilation of SMB into other operating system environments, such as Linux (Unix), Mac OS, Android, iOS etc. The final chapters of this book discuss the questions of performance, scaling and largescale use especially in cloud environments, weaknesses and security issues in the current set of implementations of the protocol. It also examines the question of interoperability of SMB with other popular NAS protocols exposing distributed file system semantics such as NFSv3 and v4.