CIFS

• SNIA: “Storage Networking Industry Association”

• Microsoft is “Associated Member” (membership 4th class)

  • recently started using term “Microsoft SMB” for a superset of SNIA CIFS ...

• “Truth is what Windows boxes do”

  • G. Carter, Samba/HP

• CIFS is Windows' native remote FS

• Samba is a free Unix server/client

  • Linux has smbfs client
    • 2.6 has a new cifsfs

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