On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:46:18PM -0800, Billy wrote: > Isn't CIFS and Samba the exact same thing? > Or to be more precise > Isn't Samba a unix implementation of mycrapsoft's cifs?
Samba is a great user-space implementation of Microsoft's SMB/CIFS protocols. Solaris, in addition to supporting Samba for years, also has a fairly- recent in-kernel implementation of SMB/CIFS, which offers better performance than Samba, and also tighter integration with other Solaris subsystems, like ZFS. For lack of a better name, "Solaris CIFS" is the name that this stack goes by.
