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["Peter Van Lone" <petervl@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/12/07, John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Samba is a service that allows you to PUBLISH shares for other
> computers to mount.
>
> smbfs and cifs are file systems that allow your Linux box to
> MOUNT a share published by a samab server or a windows
> box.  (perhaps to do a backup or some such)

ahh .. ok, perfect.

So the appropriate comparison is NOT samba vs cifs, but rather smbfs
vs cifs. Both are client protocols/virtual file system
implementations.

So, from google reading, cifs was apparently microsofts addition to
the original SMB file system spec ... and now, it is a somewhat newer
vfs that can exist along side of or instead of smbfs. Theoretically it
offers, newer/better/fancier services/access to remote SAMBA provided
storage.

About right?

Thanx John!

Peter
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