Skip to content

Strengthen smb backend's PHP smbclient recommendation (#9428) #14514

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
skjnldsv merged 1 commit into from
Apr 24, 2026
Merged

Strengthen smb backend's PHP smbclient recommendation (#9428) #14514

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
11 changes: 8 additions & 3 deletions admin_manual/configuration_files/external_storage/smb.rst
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -6,9 +6,14 @@ Nextcloud can connect to Windows file servers or other SMB-compatible servers
with the SMB/CIFS backend.

.. note:: The SMB/CIFS backend requires ``smbclient`` or
the PHP smbclient module to be installed on the Nextcloud server. The PHP
smbclient module is preferred, but either will work. These
should be included in any Linux distribution. (See `PECL smbclient
the PHP smbclient module (``php-smbclient`` / ``libsmbclient-php``) to be
installed on the Nextcloud server. The PHP smbclient module is **strongly
preferred** — without it, the backend falls back to spawning the
``smbclient`` binary, which has known limitations (notably, downloads of
files larger than ~512 MB from external SMB shares can fail; see
`nextcloud/server#31308
<https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/31308>`_). These should be
included in any Linux distribution. (See `PECL smbclient
<https://pecl.php.net/package/smbclient>`_ if your distro does not include
them.)

Expand Down
Loading