SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Volker Lendecke is member of the international Samba Core Team and co-founder of SerNet GmbH in Göttingen, Germany
While SMB3.1.1 POSIX extensions already provide Linux kernel mounts with a secure alternative to NFS, desktop environments such as GNOME have so far relied on user-space solutions like libsmbclient and GNOME VFS, leaving significant potential untapped. This talk explores how enabling support for SMB3.1.1 POSIX extensions in the GNOME desktop stack can transform remote file access for Linux users: bringing higher performance, improved compatibility, and advanced security features to daily workflows. We will dive into the relevant layers between the GNOME desktop and a modern SMB3.1.1 server, share recent development progress, and outline concrete steps toward a more robust and feature-complete remote SMB experience in GNOME.
One fallout of Samba's protection against symlink races was a slowdown of pathname handling. This talk will present the current status at the time of the conference of the ongoing work to fix the slowdown by using modern Posix and in particular Linux/FreeBSD APIs.
This talk is going to give an overview of recent changes in the Samba fileserver and an outlook on the development roadmap. Recent development has been mainly focusing on security resulting in the release of Samba 4.15 last year. Looking forward there are many things the Samba fileserver development team has on its todo list and this presentation will give a first hand insight into the making of the next Samba versions.
To implement SMB2 unix extensions, smbd needs to implement ntfs reparse points to present symlinks, sockets and other special files to clients. This talk will present an overview of what reparse points are at their core and where Samba stands to implement them. Also, it will highlight the current status of the Linux kernel SMB client implementation regarding reparse points and special files over SMB2.
To a long-time SMB developer the NFSv4 RFC looks remarkably familiar. In an effort to provide interoperable locking infrastructure, I have taken a closer look at what NFSv4 provides. This talk will present my current understanding of where NFSv4 and SMB provide similarities and where a common infrastructure could benefit both protocols.
While SMB3.1.1 POSIX extensions already provide Linux kernel mounts with a secure alternative to NFS, desktop environments such as GNOME have so far relied on user-space solutions like libsmbclient and GNOME VFS, leaving significant potential untapped.
One fallout of Samba's protection against symlink races was a slowdown of pathname handling. This talk will present the current status at the time of the conference of the ongoing work to fix the slowdown by using modern Posix and in particular Linux/FreeBSD APIs.
This talk is going to give an overview of recent changes in the Samba fileserver and an outlook on the development roadmap. Recent development has been mainly focusing on security resulting in the release of Samba 4.15 last year. Looking forward there are many things the Samba fileserver development team has on its todo list and this presentation will give a first hand insight into the making of the next Samba versions.
To implement SMB2 unix extensions, smbd needs to implement ntfs reparse points to present symlinks, sockets and other special files to clients. This talk will present an overview of what reparse points are at their core and where Samba stands to implement them. Also, it will highlight the current status of the Linux kernel SMB client implementation regarding reparse points and special files over SMB2.
To a long-time SMB developer the NFSv4 RFC looks remarkably familiar. In an effort to provide interoperable locking infrastructure, I have taken a closer look at what NFSv4 provides. This talk will present my current understanding of where NFSv4 and SMB provide similarities and where a common infrastructure could benefit both protocols.
