MS invited a few senior SAMBA devs to Redmond, gave them a few Senior MS devs that designed SMB3, and let the samba people ask all the questions they wanted, then gave the samba devs access to a bunch of VMs that included Windows and could be loaded with Linux, so the samba devs could test interop. SAMBA only supports SMB 2.0 currently, to the best of my knowledge. Build you own personal digital asset management system The list of the supported files formats is still growing. Free downloads are available for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. It helps to organize your files and folders with tags and colors. I don't recall what they are off the top of my head. TagSpaces is privacy aware, open source, cross-platform file browser. SMB moved to version 3.0 which was introduced in Windows 8/Server 2012, and introduced some new features that speed up data transfers. SMB being cross platform, even if Microsoft never intended it to be there NFS being around since Sun created it, but no local network advertising (maybe there is mDNS format for NFS?) WebDAV is structurally heavy (XML), which doesn't seem to support extending it with metadata, since that would have been a great benefit for an http/XML based protocol.ĭid the SMB protocol change in Windows 8 and is support for these changes already in Samba? My intent was to find out if there were newer solutions that become more accepted.
Http/s is unstructured (at least from a machine parsing point of view) unless using WebDAV. Gnutella and BitTorrent doesn't offer this. I am thinking of structured directory sharing, which SMB, NFS and WebDAV provide.