svn commit: samba-web r1044 - in trunk: .

[sfrench]

Author: sfrench
Date: 2006-09-26 18:19:39 +0000 (Tue, 26 Sep 2006)
New Revision: 1044

WebSVN: 
http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba-web&rev=1044

Log:
update CIFS POSIX Extensions web page

Modified:
   trunk/CIFS_POSIX_extensions.html


Changeset:
Modified: trunk/CIFS_POSIX_extensions.html
===================================================================
--- trunk/CIFS_POSIX_extensions.html    2006-09-26 16:05:24 UTC (rev 1043)
+++ trunk/CIFS_POSIX_extensions.html    2006-09-26 18:19:39 UTC (rev 1044)
@@ -20,23 +20,25 @@
       <H1>CIFS VFS -&nbsp;</H1>
       </CENTER>
       <CENTER>
-      <H1>Protocol extensions to the Common Internet File System for better 
POSIX file i/o semantics
+      <H1>Protocol extensions to the Common Internet File System for better 
POSIX file I/O semantics
   &nbsp;</H1>
       </CENTER>
       </TD>
     </TR>
     <TR>
       <TD vAlign=top width="20%" bgColor=#eeeeee><!-- Menu (Left Column) 
--><!-- Menu -->
-      <CENTER><IMG alt="http://us1.samba.org/samba/images/penguin.gif"; 
src="samba/images/penguin.gif"></CENTER>
+      <CENTER><IMG alt="http://us1.samba.org/samba/images/cifs-rail.jpg"; 
src="samba/images/cifs-rail.jpg"></CENTER>
+       <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIFS";>What is the CIFS 
Protocol?<A>
       <A 
       href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@us.ibm.com">Questions to 
developers</A>&nbsp;
       <UL>
-        <LI><A 
href="https://bugzilla.samba.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=CifsVFS&content=";>Search
 for open bugs in bugzilla </A>
-        <LI>Older Specifications
+        <LI><A href="ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/cifs/";> Older 
Specifications</A>
+       <LI><A href="http://ubiqx.org/cifs/References.html";>Miscellaneous 
references to SMB/CIFS and loosely related protocols</A>
        <LI>Presentations
         <LI><A 
href="http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/CIFS/CIFS-TR-1p00_FINAL.pdf";>SNIA 
         CIFS Specification</A>&nbsp;
-        
href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/presentations/samba/ut_cifs.pdf";>r</A>
+       <LI><A 
href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-crhertel-smb-url-11.txt";>SMB 
URL Specification</A>&nbsp;
+       <LI><A href="http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/";>Implementing CIFS (Online 
Book)</A>&nbsp;
       </UL>
       </TD>
       <TD vAlign=top bgColor=#ffffff><!-- Main Contents -->
@@ -44,11 +46,26 @@
       operating systems to better interoperate with CIFS servers 
       and storage appliances by extending the SNIA CIFS Specification version
       1.0.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Popular servers such as Samba, Windows
-      2000, Windows XP and many others support CIFS by default.&nbsp;&nbsp; 
These
+      2000, Windows XP and many others support CIFS by default.&nbsp; These
       extensions are already implemented in multiple clients and servers.
       <BR>
       &nbsp;
       </TD>
+       <P>30 Second History of the SMB/CIFS Protocol
+       <UL>
+       <LI>1984 Initial SMB Specification Published by IBM based on the work 
of Dr. Bary Feigenbaum and team
+       <LI>1985-1992 SMB Protocol extended by IBM, 3Com, Intel and Microsoft, 
and becomes the default filesystem protocol for DOS, OS/2 and Windows operating 
systems among others.
+       <LI>1992 X/Open publishes an updated version of the SMB standard: 
Protocols for X/Open PC Interworking: SMB Version 2 (CAE 209)
+       <LI>1994-1995 IBM Extends SMB to include support for DCE/Kerberos
+       <LI>1996 With the slow speed of HTTP for certain workloads, two key 
network filesystem protocols begin to become more "internet friendly." Sun 
announces WebNFS and Microsoft extends and renames SMB (announcing CIFS - "The 
Common Internet File System Protocol."  More formal documentation is developed 
describing the complex SMB/CIFS protocol in detail.
+       <LI>1996-2006 Annual CIFS Deveper Conferences are held to improve on 
interoperability.
+       <LI>1999-2001 SCO and HP add/document optional Unix Extensions to CIFS 
Protocol, Thursby adds/documents optional Macintosh extensions.
+       <LI>2002 After multiyear effort involving many companies including 
Microsoft, IBM and NetApp, The Storage Network Industry Association releases 
the SNIA CIFS Technical Reference (which also includes Unix and Mac protocol 
extensions for CIFS)
+       <LI>2003 NFSv4 (RFC 3530) released borrowing many ideas from CIFS
+       <LI>2004 Work begins on an improved set of extensions to the CIFS 
Protocol for better support of POSIX clients.
+       <LI>2006 Samba client and server and Linux client implement CIFS POSIX 
Extensions
+       </UL>
+       
     </TR>
     <TR>
       <TD vAlign=top></TD>