SMB is properiety of whom just curious how does samba team cope up with changes that microsoft makes in their cifs. do they put it out there in open as what they are using and what not
thanks -----Original Message----- From: Christopher R. Hertel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:33 AM To: Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Samba and CIFS question On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 09:20:03AM -0500, Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote: : > > Is samba implments CIFS. Yes, Samba is a CIFS implementation. > > I thought CIFS is based on SMB Yes, CIFS (Common Internet FileSystem) is Microsoft's marketing name for SMB. > > am assuming SMB is opensource protocol No. SMB is poorly documented, randomly changed, overloaded, and proprietary. > > Just wondering if am running samba 2.2.5 does it mean am running CIFS > > also what version of CIFS? Several versions of CIFS. Samba supports several dialects (a dialect is a named variation in the protocol...there are many unnamed variations as well). > > when i sniffing SMB packets which commands should i be looking at CIFS or > > SMB A tool such as Ethereal will know how to decode the packets. See also: http://ubiqx/org/cifs/ for an introduction to the protocol and its annoyances. Chris -)----- -- Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
