FreeNAS

On an aside, it isn't clear in the GUI that "SMB3" actually means "any version of 3.x" rather than "Version 3 original version only". In other words SMB3 and SMB3_00 are easily confused.

As a trivial change affecting GUI only and not middleware, can I suggest changing the dropdown UI text "-----", "SMB2" and "SMB3" in min+max, to read

----   ->       "(none)" 

SMB2   ->       "SMB2.*"   
            or: "SMB2 (any variant)" 

SMB3   ->       "SMB3.*" 
            or: "SMB3 (any variant)"

or similar, which aren't as ambiguous.

Stilez y wrote:

On an aside, it isn't clear in the GUI that "SMB3" actually means "any version of 3.x" rather than "Version 3 original version only". In other words SMB3 and SMB3_00 are easily confused.

As a trivial change affecting GUI only and not middleware, can I suggest changing the dropdown UI text "-----", "SMB2" and "SMB3" in min+max, to read

[...]

or similar, which aren't as ambiguous.

Well, technically the smb.conf manpage states

By default SMB3 selects the SMB3_11 variant.

The distinction between "any SMB3.x protocol" and "SMB3.11" is important if you set SMB3 to be "server min protocol" ;-)

"Technically" isn't a big deal compared to "helpful", when it comes to making the UI more straightforward without cost.

Sure, people who use samba in CLI may know the small print. But as FreeNAS has a NAS appliance webUI approach and is rather more geared to suit those who haven't read the man pages as well .... ;-) maybe we could make that (or a similar) edit anyway and avoid assuming a depth of knowledge that most users surely won't be expected to have :)

John Hixson wrote:

"Fixed". I have a bad feeling about this. I'd really like the min and max protocol knobs to be hidden ;-) The values for these are negotiated by the protocol. Occasionally setting them is necessary or desired, but most of the time these are fiddled with when it isn't necessary thus causing things to break and bringing more tickets ;-)

commit:db1bf13d2752d692cc5f96570683526f15b7ed74
pull request: https://github.com/freenas/freenas/pull/270

John, out of curiosity is there a reason why FreeNAS defaults to "Core" for min protocol when Samba defaults to "LANMAN1"?