Hi Folks,
I know can be rather old fashioned, and presumably the SMB feature was widely requested, so Mikrotik thought they would include it.
But i dont understand why anybody would want it on a router?
What am I missing?
Alex
+1.I come from the traditional position with network devices. For e.g. a server should be a server and a router should be a router.
+2-1 I think it's a useful feature in some special conditions (like hosting a smb server on top of a mast which is 70m high, with let's say: btest for windows, putty or winscp in files shared).
With your logic same is for:
why having a firewall on a routing machine?
why having a QoS enforcer on a router?
why having a ppp concentrator, dhcp, radius, ntp, dns server on a router?
All of these are features and all of them come disabled by default. Nobody forces you to use them.
And if you use some of them, use it wisely.
And please don't complain for new features unless they are or cause malfunctioning.
Agreed.-1 I think it's a useful feature in some special conditions (like hosting a smb server on top of a mast which is 70m high, with let's say: btest for windows, putty or winscp in files shared).
With your logic same is for:
why having a firewall on a routing machine?
why having a QoS enforcer on a router?
why having a ppp concentrator, dhcp, radius, ntp, dns server on a router?
All of these are features and all of them come disabled by default. Nobody forces you to use them.
And if you use some of them, use it wisely.
And please don't complain for new features unless they are or cause malfunctioning.
This is ignorance. Of course it will be slower if the router is doing a little bit of everything. If you need something more high performance you remove packages and disable things you don't need. But it is nice to have the features in case they are needed. Let's go ahead and stop all development of new ros features because they are useless for everyone. Hell lets all revert back to 3.30.mmmigoro, kembiet, cbrown and everyone else who thinks a router should be dressed up like a pig at the county fair.
Take a router, let's say a RB750 and load ROS 5.12 onto it.
Set up two computers and pass traffic through it.
Measure the speed.
Load ROS 3.30 onto it.
Run the same test.
What would you rather have, something that moves packets fast or something that does a lot of things, slowly?
Maybe I should have suggested only installing the minimum required packages on each version. For example, Advanced Tools, Routerboard, System and Security. Anyone who installs the standard package really is wasting resources. How many people who would want to use SMB are running BGP or OSPF? And, how many people running BGP, advertising routes over the internet want the potential security loophole of SMB running on a router that's literally facing the world?This is ignorance. Of course it will be slower if the router is doing a little bit of everything. If you need something more high performance you remove packages and disable things you don't need. But it is nice to have the features in case they are needed. Let's go ahead and stop all development of new ros features because they are useless for everyone. Hell lets all revert back to 3.30.mmmigoro, kembiet, cbrown and everyone else who thinks a router should be dressed up like a pig at the county fair.
Take a router, let's say a RB750 and load ROS 5.12 onto it.
Set up two computers and pass traffic through it.
Measure the speed.
Load ROS 3.30 onto it.
Run the same test.
What would you rather have, something that moves packets fast or something that does a lot of things, slowly?
Honestly I don't know what I would use SMB for but it is nice to know I can do something with it if the situation arises.
Is this the joke where two guys steal the prize pig at the county fair, dress it up in some woman's clothes, and after the policemen/guards let them pass, one of the cops says to the other(s) "what is a nice xxx girl doing with a couple yyy guys like that?" or something similar? (e.g. "it's nice to see a couple yyy lads taking their mother/sister to the fair on a fine day like this.", "what do two nice yyy boys see in a xxx girl like that?", ...)dressed up like a pig at the county fair.
Exactly! I use rb433 at home as the home router and internet gateway (and I love all the features it has) and I really appreciate introduction of SMB because now I can connect my usb drive to the network and use it as an attached storage on all computers - thats great because I don't need any other dedicated device to host the network share for a simple tasks...We made the SMB feature for the home AP market, where we have some new products out. I personally love the ability to connect a USB flash and store some files for easy access.