Sunu Engineer With decades of experience in software systems especially in the field of distributed storage, File Systems, Operating Systems etc, Sunu was instrumental in architecting and designing the original version of MoSMB, a proprietary SMB3 implementation on Linux, during his stint as the CTO of Ryussi Technologies Pvt Ltd. The insights gained from that exercise which required a deep study of the protocol as well as the interaction with the many members of the implementation ecosystem across the world led to the formulation of this book.

Anu Engineer Is a software engineer with over 20 years of experience. He worked in the Windows Team and was part of the founding team of Windows Azure. He wrote the VMware Certificate Server and has made extensive contributions to the open-source. He is a core contributor and program management committee member for Apache Hadoop, Apache Ozone, and Apache Ratis. His most recent stint was in the field of AI and NLP in the field of Legal Contracts as the CTO of Sirionlabs Pvt Ltd.

Provides insight into the current capabilities and usage models for SMB3 (Server Message Block) with a deep analysis of the structure of the protocol so that the potential of SMB can be fully realized in many application contexts

Presents a much needed analysis of the different implementations of SMB (Server Message Block )protocol that are prevalent and their present and future uses

Discusses the questions of performance, scaling and largescale use especially in cloud environments, weaknesses as well as security issues in the current set of implementations of the protocol

Chapter 1 The beginning.- Chapter 2 The structure of the protocol.- Chapter 3 The entities in the interaction.- Chapter 4 The exchange of messages.- Chapter 5 The interpretation of Messages.- Chapter 6 Keeping the data secure.- Chapter 7 Implementing the protocol.- Chapter 8 I/O systems and patterns.- Chapter 9 I/O performance.- Chapter 10 Co-operative coexistence.- Chapter 11 Dynamic learning.- Chapter 12 How things go wrong.- Chapter 13 Secure scaling of the protocol.- Chapter 14 The future.