"Michael B.Allen" wrote: > > 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."
Unfortunetly the politics SNIA require its current status as a 'proposed standard', but anyway. > 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. Much as we would like to have DCE/RPC documented, it's a lot of work. > The only stuff that's > accurate is the original Leach/Naik content. My understanding is that even that isn't too flash. > 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. Nearly, but not quite. Such extenstions do exist, and they may as well be publicly documented - not everybody runs windows, and sometimes the extenstions provide some quite useful features. Samba->Samba connections are quite common on small networks trying to avoid the perils of NFS for example. > I wish someone > would do a real analysis and write some practical documentation. A volenteer! Great! I'll see what help I can be, but you might want to give Chris's site a look - his online book is a very worthwhile read: http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/index.html Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
