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authorJeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>2013-08-16 16:47:13 -0700
committerKarolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>2013-08-30 11:53:27 +0200
commit11890a519ab579790d0c14835639d03d09cad24d (patch)
tree4a6eff8cebbe4e0d554e5cd56a2b87655f45a5a2 /docs-xml
parentcda1b516f0c58460e126d275d5305620d5777202 (diff)
downloadsamba-11890a519ab579790d0c14835639d03d09cad24d.tar.gz
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> (cherry picked from commit 252a6b6d8a27f4b8be61c6b091318ddb76776471)
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-rw-r--r--docs-xml/manpages/smbclient.1.xml9
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diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages/smbclient.1.xml b/docs-xml/manpages/smbclient.1.xml
index 328fd50efe4..f3e085873d2 100644
--- a/docs-xml/manpages/smbclient.1.xml
+++ b/docs-xml/manpages/smbclient.1.xml
@@ -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>