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authorJeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>2013-08-16 16:47:13 -0700
committerMichael Adam <obnox@samba.org>2013-08-21 17:28:56 +0200
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Expand on the documentation of -m max-protocol for SMB2/3 for smbclient.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
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diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages/smbclient.1.xml b/docs-xml/manpages/smbclient.1.xml
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@@ -256,7 +256,14 @@
<varlistentry>
<term>-m|--max-protocol protocol</term>
- <listitem><para>This parameter sets the maximum protocol version announced by the client.
+ <listitem><para>This allows the user to select the
+ highest SMB protocol level that smbclient will use to
+ connect to the server. By default this is set to
+ NT1, which is the highest available SMB1 protocol.
+ To connect using SMB2 or SMB3 protocol, use the
+ strings SMB2 or SMB3 respectively. Note that to connect
+ to a Windows 2012 server with encrypted transport selecting
+ a max-protocol of SMB3 is required.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>