Don't you think it's kind of funny that Leach and Naik aren't even mentioned in the acknowledgements? And they put a Copyright 2001, 2002 SNIA in there? This document is a big turd. There are major grammatical errors, technical inaccuracies, and huge holes that aren't even mentioned (what's the number of seconds between 1601 and 1970 again?). How about this gem on page 1:
"Adoption of a common file sharing protocol having modern semantics such as shared files, byte-range locking, coherent caching, change notification, replicated storage, etc. would provide important benifits to the Internet community." What a load of crap! Who's going to run a CIFS server on the internet? DCE on top of Transactions on top of SMB in front of empty 4 byte NetBIOS headers? No thanks! Don't you think it would be worth mentioning that SMB_COM_COPY doesn't even work? There's *nothing* about DCE/RPC in here except for some incomprehensible banter about PDUs. The only stuff that's accurate is the original Leach/Naik content. The few corrections I submitted have not been fixed so why bother to contibute anything? This document is an excuse for the different shadowy clicks to get their little two-bit extensions in. And the funny thing is the extensions will never be implemented by Windows servers so they're nearly pointless. I wish someone would do a real analysis and write some practical documentation. Sorry. Needed to be said, Mike On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:50:26 -0500 "Christopher R. Hertel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike, > > I sent a message to your ml.com address. The SNIA CIFS TR is at: -- A program should be written to model the concepts of the task it performs rather than the physical world or a process because this maximizes the potential for it to be applied to tasks that are conceptually similar and more importantly to tasks that have not yet been conceived.