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>Interesting article, but in case SMB2.x or 3.x is being used, it recommends completely disabling those protocols. Server admins will be very reluctant to do so, given that some features depend on those newer protocols: http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2013/10/02/windows-server-2012-r2-which-version-of-the-smb-protocol-smb-1-0-smb-2-0-smb-2-1-smb-3-0-or-smb-3-02-you-are-using.aspx (section 5)
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>Alaska Software claims to know the details of the problem and offers a patch that changes some SMB2/3 parameters without disabling the protocols entirely: http://www.alaska-software.com/fixes/smb2/overview.shtm
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>In a perfect world yes, we would all be running against an RDBMS backend. However, if VFP tables are still being used I believe the Alaska Software patch is a good place to start.

Al, thanks for this article. I didn't know of it! :D