Siddharth Karnik wrote: > On 11/3/07, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> Recently support for Common Internet Filesystem or CIFS was >> introduced into OpenSolaris. This make seamless interoperability >> with Windows servers and clients possible. That is OpenSolaris >> now has kernel support for CIFS/SMB and can act both as a server >> and a client. >> >> As opposed to Samba this change is a very fundamental change >> introduced into the OS at the kernel level. With support for a >> variety of things like integrated support for Windows Credentials >> which Samba does not yet support. Also since it is an in-kernel >> implementation performance should also be much better. >> >> There is a nice blog post by the CIFS architect: >> http://blogs.sun.com/amw/entry/cifs_in_solaris >> >> Highly recommended reading. Good insights into how large and >> complex projects evolve. >> > > Cool! Any idea when this will find its way into a Nevada build? >
It is already in B77. Regards, Moinak. > > > >> Regards, >> Moinak. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ug-bosug mailing list >> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >
