On Monday 12 March 2007, Peter Van Lone wrote: > On 3/12/07, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Samba is a service that allows you to PUBLISH shares for other > > computers to mount. > > > > smbfs and cifs are file systems that allow your Linux box to > > MOUNT a share published by a samab server or a windows > > box. (perhaps to do a backup or some such) > > ahh .. ok, perfect. > > So the appropriate comparison is NOT samba vs cifs, but rather smbfs > vs cifs. Both are client protocols/virtual file system > implementations. > > So, from google reading, cifs was apparently microsofts addition to > the original SMB file system spec ... and now, it is a somewhat newer > vfs that can exist along side of or instead of smbfs. Theoretically it > offers, newer/better/fancier services/access to remote SAMBA provided > storage. > > About right? > > Thanx John! > > Peter
I think that's about it, although I can't vouch for just how much is Microsoft's input to this and how much comes from other sources. Wikipedia had a pretty good write up last I checked. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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