First published on TECHNET on Sep 16, 2016
Hi folks, Ned here again and today’s topic is short and sweet:
Stop using SMB1. Stop using SMB1 . STOP USING SMB1!
In September of 201...
Updated Sep 02, 2020
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Yeah....just dump SMB1. Condemn those hundreds of thousands of printers that use the protocol to scan to folder. Great idea.....unless you can deliver another way. Where, exactly, is that?
I've got an old dino HP 9500 MFP with barely 6000 sheets through the engine. Just got done beating my head against the wall getting scan to folder to work on a Win10 machine. Because it's old, HP doesn't want to talk to you, telling you to dump your $6k machine for a newer one. What asinine stupidity. Hubris.
No one, including MS, knew crap about it when asked. Finally stumbled across a white paper by HP that listed several hundred printers that would be affected. Buried. Deeeep. One of the claims for deprecation was WannaCry, and yet, MS patched SMB1 so that issue is moot.
Thanks MS. Kinda why Linux has another convert.