Alfresco has CIFS and NFS servers: 
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Subsystem#Introduction
It's Open Source BUT I think not for commercial use. I actually don't
think thats the way to go but if it is no issue with you, you can
download the source at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/alfresco/files/JLAN/.
The whole alfresco model seems a bit strange to me.

On Mar 6, 2:38 am, James Dumay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Working on an internal project that required writing lots of files to a
> WebDav server I spent an entire week screwing around with Commons VFSs
> webdav implementation. I gave up and wrote a cute wrapper around Jackrabbits
> Webdav HTTP Client methods which worked much better :)
>
> Looks like the new NIO stuff in JDK7 has a Virtual File System SPI that
> might be interesting to have a look at.
>
> James
>
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]
>
>
>
> > wrote:
> > Hmm.. it appears to be a client perspective API. "It presents a
> > uniform view of the files from various different sources, such as the
> > files on local disk, on an HTTP server, or inside a Zip archive."
> > I'll look at it though, and see what it contains.
>
> > There seems to be lots of NFS clients around, as this is the common
> > use case.
>
> > On Mar 6, 9:40 am, Mark Fortner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > You might try Apache Commons VFS which supports a large number of file
> > > systems including WebDAV.  WebDAV volumes are mountable via the Windows
> > File
> > > Manager as well as from OS X File Manager and the Nautilus File Manager
> > in
> > > Linux.
>
> > > Hope this helps,
>
> > > Mark
>
> > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Christian Catchpole <
> > [email protected]
>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > I have been pondering adding a "virtual file system" to one of my
> > > > projects.  The idea is that I have data in a managed store which could
> > > > be represented as files. Also you could add files to the store by
> > > > dropping the files into the drive.  I'm trying to avoid the manual
> > > > syncing of a real file system.
>
> > > > Creating the native bridge sounds painful and would be different on
> > > > each platform.  An FTP or SSH server could work but this is still
> > > > clunky.
>
> > > > So this got me to thinking about network file systems.  I could create
> > > > a server connector in Java.  I can see there are a bunch of projects
> > > > around that do this.  Mostly university projects and they have various
> > > > licenses.  But there seem to be a range of different protocols, and
> > > > each have their own implications of features, which ports they use and
> > > > which OSes support them.  Plus, I assume it's a "one server per IP"
> > > > proposition (not like a web server where you can just change to port
> > > > 8080 if 80 is in use).
>
> > > > Does anyone have experience in this space and can offer any
> > > > recommendations?
>
> > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System_(protocol)<
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System_%28protocol%29>
>
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