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Joseph Wesley - Sun Microsystems wrote: > I would like to propose a new Open Solaris project called > "CIFS Server" providing Microsoft Windows interoperability > capabilities for Open Solaris. > > The Common Internet File System (CIFS), also commonly referred to as SMB, > is the standard for Microsoft file sharing services. Unlike NFS, which > is a > pure file sharing service and protocol, CIFS encompasses a wide variety > of services. Such services include file sharing services, naming services, > MSRPC services, and subprotocols such as named pipes, all of which are > required to provide the Windows-like behavior necessary to fully support > CIFS clients. > > This project will be initiated by the integration of a preliminary > kernel-based Solaris CIFS implementation into Solaris Nevada B77. The > Solaris > CIFS server includes numerous enhancements to the Solaris OS to accommodate > CIFS file sharing semantics, file attributes, and user credentials. > These changes > make CIFS a "first-class citizen" among other Solaris file system and file > sharing technologies. > > This project will be associated with (and endorsed by) the > Storage Community. The proposed leaders will be Joe Wesley, > Alan Wright, and Cathleen Reiher. > > _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
