No SMB1 to Share Devices

Tuesday, 17 March 2020
As it recently came up I thought I should perhaps post this more publicly… As many of you will know SMB1, the super ancient protocol for windows shares, shouldn’t be used anymore. It’s been deprecated since like Windows Vista and was eventually also disabled by default in both Windows 10 and Samba. As a result you are not able to find servers that do not support either DNS-SD aka Bonjour aka Avahi, or WS-Discovery. Read More

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Harald Sitter is a long-time KDE developer who previously also worked on the music player Amarok and the Linux distribution Kubuntu. He loves talking about the nitty-gritty details of technology and making things more automated and reliable. Also on: LinkedIn GitHub KDE Invent