On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:56, you wrote: > 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
It wouldn't surprise me at all. I've read somewhere that many of the NT team at Microsoft came from the VMS team at Digital. I'm too lazy to google a source right now. Yuri
