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| | IBM SMB: Server Message Block protocol |
 | | SMB is a client server, request-response protocol, which provides a method for client applications in a computer to read and write to files on and to request services from server programs in various types of network environment. | | | Server Message Block (SMB) protocol is an IBM protocol for sharing files, printers, serial ports, etc. between computers. | | | Protocol Structure - IBM SMB: Server Message Block protocolSMB has many variants to handle the complexity of the underneath network environments that it is employed. |
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http://www.javvin.com/protocolSMB.html
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| | Server Message Block |
| | SMB was developed by Intel, Microsoft, and IBM in the early 1980s. | | | There are SMB servers and clients for Unix, for example Samba and smbclient. | | | Microsoft have developed an extended version of SMB for the Internet, the Common Internet File System (CIFS), which in most cases replaces SMB. |
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http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/foldoc/75/104.htm
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| | Security Pipeline Web Sites Running On Windows NT At Risk |
| | SMB is used by Windows to share files, printers, and serial ports, and to communicate between computers, particularly between servers and client desktops. | | | The bug in a key Windows protocol, Server Message Block (SMB), was patched for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2000 in February, but because NT 4 had reached the end of its support lifecycle December 31, 2004, no public fix was issued by Microsoft. | | | More information on how to turn on SMB signing can be found on Microsoft's Web site. |
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http://www.securitypipeline.com/news/159401022
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| | Server Message Block Protocols |
| | SMB is a combination of NFS, lpd, a security system like Kerberos and a little more. | | | Like NFS, SMB allows a file system to be shared across a network. | | | Where NFS is limited to file system sharing, SMB also implements the sharing of printers and other services as well as simple network messaging. |
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http://www.borg.com/~dennis/netmanage.htm
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| | Server Message Block Protocol |
| | SMB requires a transport /session protocol and the early versions of IBM's implementation were closely linked with NetBIOS. | | | SMB is very analogous to the NetWare Core Protocol (NCF); there are numerous functions available for accomplishing various tasks. | | | Despite having released a version of SMB to the X-Open organization, Microsoft continues to develop the protocol as a proprietary protocol and details of some of the more recent versions have not been made freely available. |
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http://timothydevans.me.uk/nbf2cifs/smb.xml
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| | Implementing CIFS: SMB |
| | In this particular SMB the Parameter block is empty and all of the useful information is being carried in the Data block. | | | Because we are shamelessly avoiding presenting code that interprets Server Identifiers, the example program makes the user do all of the work. | | | Thursby Software and Apple Computer also make use of the SMB URL in their commercial CIFS implementations. |
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http://ubiqx.org/cifs/SMB.html
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| | Server Message Block-Based File Services |
| | Additionally, with NFS, there is less of a burden on the server because much of the NFS processing is performed on the local workstation. | | | CIFS is based on the Windows NT LM 1.2 revision of the SMB protocol and is being championed by Microsoft and other vendors as an Internet version of SMB. | | | To test performance, we used Network Computing's FileMetric benchmark utility, which performs both reads and writes to the server using two NT clients (3.51 and 4.0) with a Windows95 workstation as the control workstation. |
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http://www.networkcomputing.com/716/716rev22.html
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| | Overview of Server Message Block signing |
| | The SMB connection is not successful if one computer does not support SMB signing. | | | The default value for all other computers that are running Windows NT 4.0 SP3 or later versions of Windows is 0 (not required). | | | For Windows NT 4.0-based computers to be able to connect to Windows 2000-based computers by using SMB signing, you must create the following registry value on the Windows 2000-based computers: |
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http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=887429
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| | The Server Message Block protocol |
| | Under Windows, SMB is referred to as "Microsoft Networking". | | | You probably need to be running an SMB service if you want to make files and printers available to Windows systems, although there are other protocols they can use. | | | It is a general maxim of computer security that the fewer network services you run the more secure your system will be. |
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http://probing.csx.cam.ac.uk/about/smb.html
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| | What is SMB? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | NetBIOS is based on the SMB format, and many network products use SMB. | | | HP Business Store: SMB Computer - Purchase Hewlett Packard equipment online, including HP Compaq notebooks and desktops, HP printers, servers, handhelds, and storage solutions. | | | Contains a list of Web sites that are relevant to the SMB protocol. |
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/N/SMB.html
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| | InformationWeek.com |
| | amba, an open-source implementation of Microsoft's Server Message Block protocol that facilitates file-sharing between Unix or Linux systems and Windows clients and servers, is not immune to interoperability problems with Windows 2000. | | | "The main reason for using Samba is that it does what we need from a central point--one server on the Unix box--as opposed to buying a Network File System program or license for every PC that needs access to the Unix file system," says Dave Oberholzer, manager of data services for Measurisk.com. | | | Oberholzer says his IT organization ran Samba with no problems until Microsoft modified its interface for Server Message Block in Windows 2000. |
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| | Server Message Block - SMB |
| | Short for Server Message Block, SMB is a common network communications method used on Microsoft operating systems allowing those computers to communicate with other SMB computers. | | | Were you able to locate the answer to your questions? |
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http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/smb.htm
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| | Server Message Block |
| | Developers working on the open-source Samba project have unveiled the first major release of their Unix and Linux file server...... | | | Samba is an open source tool that allows users to share files with Windows servers. | | | With big-ticket vendors like Oracle and Dell now supporting Linux, the open source system has its sights firmly set on the data...... |
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http://www.computerweekly.com/A-Z/Landing/1001/1022894/Page1.htm
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| | PHP Help: Server Message Block (smb / samba) - PHP Help Forums |
| | I'm working on this website for an intra-net and I'd like to be able to index files on a network -drive or -folder in a windows network. | | | Is there anyone that can tell me how I access a network -drive or -folder in a windows network with php? | | | I know windows uses the Server Message Block protocol for this, but I don't know how to use windows' smb client in php. |
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http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13593
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| | SMB (Server Message Block Protocol) (smb) |
| | Maximum length of each file name component in number of bytes | | | Size of the stream in number of bytes | | | The servers in referrals should hold storage for the file |
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| | US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#489397 |
| | An attacker may send a specially-crafted packet to the vulnerable host and be able to execute arbitrary code on the host after exploiting the incoming packet processing flaw. | | | Server Message Block is a protocol which allows sharing of files, printers, serial ports, and other abstractions. | | | The attacker-supplied code would be run in the context of Local System, resulting in a complete compromise of the system. |
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/489397
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| | Buffer Overrun in Microsoft Windows Server Message Block |
| | Microsoft Windows XP A new vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems that can result in the execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable computer. | | | By sending a specially crafted SMB packet request, a potential attacker could cause a buffer overrun to occur, leading to data corruption, system failure, or execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system. | | | Buffer Overrun in Microsoft Windows Server Message Block |
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http://www.windowsitpro.com/WindowsServer/Article/ArticleID/39558/WindowsServer_39558.html
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| | Vulnerability In Microsoft's Server Message Block for Windows XP and Windows 2000 |
| | Vulnerability In Microsoft's Server Message Block for Windows XP and Windows 2000 | | | This vulnerability can expose any SMB session to tampering, but the most serious scenario involves changing Group Policy information as it's disseminated from a Win2K domain controller (DC) to a newly logged-on network client. | | | A new vulnerability exists in Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) that can permit an attacker to silently downgrade the SMB Signing settings on a vulnerable system. |
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http://www.windowsitpro.com/WindowsSecurity/Article/ArticleID/37435/WindowsSecurity_37435.html
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| | Server Message Block Protocol |
| | A description of the SMB protocol data type encodings. | | | A description of the SMB protocol and the features it supports. | | | Client systems use the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol to request file and print services from server systems over a network. |
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http://members.microsoft.com/consent/Info/protocol_pages/portal_server_message_block_protocol.htm
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| | LAN Server - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Variants included LAN Server Ultimedia (optimized for network delivery of multimedia files) and Workplace On-Demand. | | | It was originally designed to run on top of Operating System/2 Extended Edition. | | | There were also LAN Server products for other operating systems, notably AIX (now called Fast Connect) and OS/400. |
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| | Samba - opening windows to a wider world |
| | This is the version that production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes. | | | This release addresses password changes issues with older clients, several SPNEGO and schannel non-default configuration problems, and a few crash bugs. | | | This is the latest stable release of Samba. |
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