SMB 2.2 durable handles fallback to SMB 2.1 behavior on Windows 8 clients
Determine whether a Windows 8 client will automatically disable durable handles and revert to non‑durable SMB 2.1 semantics when the server advertises only SMB 2.1, and how this affects write retry safety. The documentation states that durable handles are enabled by default for SMB 2.2 connections but does not specify the client‑side fallback logic when the