Introduction to SMB (Server Message Block) Protocol

What Is SMB?

To begin with, what is SMB?

It can also carry transaction protocols for inter-process communication.

What is SMBs definition?

This part has given you specific information and the next partMiniToolwill tell you the features of SMB.

What is SMBs feature?

The SMB protocol depends on lower-level protocols for transport.

SMB supports the opportunistic locking of files (a special locking mechanism) to improve performance.

SMB is the foundation of Microsofts Distributed File System implementation.

Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and subsequent versions of Windows do not support NetBIOS.

The SMB/NBT combination is usually used for backward compatibility.

NetBIOS through NetBEUI protocol provides NetBIOS support for NetBEUI protocol.

This protocol is also called NetBIOS frame (NBF).

Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows Me/98/95 support NBF.

Windows XP and later versions no longer support NetBEUI.

NetBIOS was also supported through various legacy protocols such as IPX/SPX.

What is SMBs history?

Now lets take an overview of the variants.

If you want to get more information about the implementation of SMB, click thislink.

What is SMB?

This post has gathered the SMBs definition, features, history as well as implementation.

There are multiple variants of SMB and each of them was released in different Windows versions.