CIFS
the protocol formerly known as SMB
- Server Message Block
- by IBM in mid-80s
- more than a filesystem
- sharing printers
- & other resources
when SUN invented “WebNFS” ...
- ... Microsoft renamed SMB to “Common Internet FileSystem”
- and started adding undocumented enhancements to it
- 01/2002: CIFS Specification V 1.0 by SNIA (www.snia.org)