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Server Message Block

Server Message Block (SMB) is a communication protocol used to share files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. On Windows, the SMB implementation consists of two vaguely named Windows services: "Server" (ID: LanmanServer) and "Workstation" (ID: LanmanWorkstation). It uses NTLM or Kerberos protocols for…

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Server Message Block

Nodes161
Edges160
Triples62
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012422
Components1

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Server Message Block

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related to SMB specifications · 26
Server Message Block → Access, Benefits, CIFS, Common Internet File System, CPU, DDP, December, Infiniband, June, Microsoft, MS-CIFS, MS-SMB, MS-SMB2, MS-SMBD, October, Open Specifications, Protocol, Protocol Versions, RDMA, RDMA-capable
related to Features · 20
Server Message Block → IEEE, Internet, IP, IPX/SPX, Microsoft, Microsoft's Distributed File System, NBF, NetBIOS, NETBIOS Datagram Service, NetBIOS Frames, NETBIOS Name Service, NETBIOS Session Service, NetBT, On NetBT, SMB, TCP, TCP/IP, The SMB, This, UDP

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smb microsoft server windows protocol file network support smb2 tcp cifs internet also later since smb1 access systems versions use

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those provided by Riverbedinstance ofOne approach to mitigating the inefficiencies in the protocol is to use WAN optimization products0.80text
Silver Peakinstance ofOne approach to mitigating the inefficiencies in the protocol is to use WAN optimization products0.80text
or Ciscoinstance ofOne approach to mitigating the inefficiencies in the protocol is to use WAN optimization products0.80text
Xenixinstance ofand later became part of a wide variety of non-Windows operating systems0.80text
OS/2instance ofand later became part of a wide variety of non-Windows operating systems0.80text
VMSinstance ofand later became part of a wide variety of non-Windows operating systems0.80text
Unicode support were retro-fitted at a later dateinstance ofbecause features0.80text
the internetinstance ofproviding a secure alternative to VPN for remote file access over untrusted networks0.80text
ext4instance ofMoSMB also supports Amazon S3 object storage as storage backend in addition to POSIX file systems0.80text
ZFSinstance ofMoSMB also supports Amazon S3 object storage as storage backend in addition to POSIX file systems0.80text
Lustreinstance ofMoSMB also supports Amazon S3 object storage as storage backend in addition to POSIX file systems0.80text
Cephinstance ofMoSMB also supports Amazon S3 object storage as storage backend in addition to POSIX file systems0.80text

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