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@rl_dane @stefano of course not, Samba switch to GPL3 way back so MacOS has written their own implementation starting around 2011 (??)
The MacOS variant is called SMBX and has a kernel module to make it fast too.
[I think] some of it is built upon mount_smbfs / smbutil which has been in FreeBSD for a long time, and they're still in MacOS so that makes sense.
The FreeBSD smbfs(4) man page says:
The smbfs filesystem driver supports only the obsolete SMBv1 protocol.
smbfs has known bugs and likely has security vulnerabilities. smbfs and
userspace counterparts smbutil(1) and mount_smbfs(8) may be removed from
a future version of FreeBSD. Users are advised to evaluate the
filesystems/smbnetfs port instead.
and there is no smbfs(4) man page on MacOS anymore so I don't know why they'd keep mount_smbfs if they didn't just wire it up to their new implementation
The MacOS variant is called SMBX and has a kernel module to make it fast too.
[I think] some of it is built upon mount_smbfs / smbutil which has been in FreeBSD for a long time, and they're still in MacOS so that makes sense.
The FreeBSD smbfs(4) man page says:
The smbfs filesystem driver supports only the obsolete SMBv1 protocol.
smbfs has known bugs and likely has security vulnerabilities. smbfs and
userspace counterparts smbutil(1) and mount_smbfs(8) may be removed from
a future version of FreeBSD. Users are advised to evaluate the
filesystems/smbnetfs port instead.
and there is no smbfs(4) man page on MacOS anymore so I don't know why they'd keep mount_smbfs if they didn't just wire it up to their new implementation
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