I trust it's SMB 1.0 that it supports, just to leverage all the available exploits onto a new platform?
Chromebooks gain faff-free access to Windows file shares via Samba
Google’s Chrome OS tanks crept a little further onto Microsoft’s manicured enterprise lawns with hints that Windows file-share support will arrive out-of-the-box in an upcoming version of Chrome OS. Those brave enough to be on the Canary version of Chrome 70 already have the functionality, assuming the preview software stays …
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Wednesday 12th September 2018 10:57 GMT Teiwaz
I don't know why...
Google just don't put out a full 'Linux distro at this point.
I know 'Linux isn't a brand name to inspire self-confidence in the non-techie (if they actually recognised it) but they don't have to call it that.
All this dropping features in one at a time is like chinese water torture.
Just piss in the pot and get it over with, this drip by drip is just irritating.
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Wednesday 12th September 2018 13:37 GMT Lee D
Re: DFS
I've never had a problem with DFS on Linux.
The \\domain part just resolves to a server within the AD heirarchy, which handles the request (even if it's not serving that share itself).
Googling around, people have been doing that just fine since at least 2012, and it doesn't involve Samba at all, just the CIFS filesystem modules, the kernel keystore using "keyutils" and a WINS server setting. Certainly none of those are doing any clever interrogation or whatever.
http://mattslay.com/connecting-ubuntu-to-windows-shares-and-dfs-trees/
Literally set up your system properly, connect to DFS shares the same as you would any SMB share.
It's about setting up the system to trust that one machine is capable of giving you Kerberos tickets valid for a share where you may have to use another server in a little while. Nothing to do with the SMB protocol, really.
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Wednesday 12th September 2018 16:42 GMT Jeremy Allison
"Sans Samba ?" It's uses Samba you muppet !
You guys should really reach out and check your sources before posting drivel :-).
This is based on libsmbclient (aka Samba) integrated into ChromeOS.
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/libsmbclient.7.html
It's not like we're hard to get in touch with..
https://www.samba.org/~jra/
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Wednesday 12th September 2018 16:45 GMT Alistair
people keep forgetting that Server Message Block is a communication protocol. That there was at one time a number of stupid uses of this communications protocol is the problem.
Common internet file system is slowly and quietly catching up to networked file system.
Samba was a suite of tools that (at the time) made using and connecting to the stupid services run out over Server Message Block somewhat doable. Sometimes. When MS wasn't playing hide the pickle.
<and if you get that last line, a) you're old enough to know better and b) I can tell you where you were in May of 2002>
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Thursday 13th September 2018 16:07 GMT Hans 1
"Livin' in the 80's... you're livin' in the 80's" (with apologies to "The Killing Joke" :-).
Things have long since changed.
Seeing as Linux was cancer up until 2014, I guess one can safely say that MS have changed tactics only very recently. I would not trust them if I were you, but that is your business, not mine ... thanks for the great stuff you guyz have done! I remember with fun humiliating a bunch of MCSE's beating their multi-CPU server grade kit running Windows NT Server and later Windows 2000 Advanced Server at SMB with an outdated desktop class system running Debian headless in 2000-2001, ok, I had a good network card, but still. Sweet memories.
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Wednesday 12th September 2018 18:53 GMT Stuart 22
"Use a Chrome book to access a Windows share? Why not just run Windows and be done with it?"
One of the reasons we are now a Linux shop was it was a lot easier to get Kubuntu working with Windows Shares than the new fangled (at that time) Vista. Has anything changed?
Yep, lack of Samba support, is a major limiting hole on my Chromebook so this is great news. Could end up with ChromeOS eating into the thin Linux client market as well as Windows.
But the TL:DR on the road answer is probably 'boot time'. Who needs it?
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Thursday 13th September 2018 21:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
Easy access to docx files that render incorrectly
Great news this is being included, hope it becomes manageable soon.
Pity governments and councils still persist with docx, maintaining Microsoft's os dictatorship. Microsoft office Docx files still default transitional file format, 10 years after they promised to move to docx strict format, Alex Brown? of iso to blaim, an idiot or corrupt.