On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 02:47:09PM +1300, Zane Gilmore wrote:
Actually SMB is not a Microsoft networking protocol but it was first
developed by Digital. Of course M$ has made it it's own to a certain
extent but if you want to connect a Linux box to a VMS box SMB is the
way to go. (VMS is/was a Digital operating system the software that
runs this list runs on it)
Do you have any references for this? Are you sure it's the same SMB? The somewhat incomplete history of CIFS[0] doesn't mention Digital or VMS at all.
[0] http://samba.org/cifs/docs/smb-history.html
I believe SMB originates with IBM's early network protocols
