SMB 2.0 support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is not supported. This statement is:

SMB 2.0 support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is not supported. This statement is:

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Not Applicable
• D. NA

Answer: (A)

SMB protocol version negotiation is what decides which SMB features the server can speak. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 introduce SMB 2.0, but NetApp Data ONTAP 8.0 in 7-Mode did not implement SMB 2.0. It supports SMB 1.0 (CIFS) only. So when those Windows clients connect, the server can’t negotiate SMB 2.0 and will use SMB 1.0 instead. That’s why the statement that SMB 2.0 support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is not supported is true. If you need SMB 2.0, you’d look to later Data ONTAP releases or to Clustered Data ONTAP that provide SMB2 support.

SMB protocol version negotiation is what decides which SMB features the server can speak. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 introduce SMB 2.0, but NetApp Data ONTAP 8.0 in 7-Mode did not implement SMB 2.0. It supports SMB 1.0 (CIFS) only. So when those Windows clients connect, the server can’t negotiate SMB 2.0 and will use SMB 1.0 instead. That’s why the statement that SMB 2.0 support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is not supported is true. If you need SMB 2.0, you’d look to later Data ONTAP releases or to Clustered Data ONTAP that provide SMB2 support.