Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3135 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 12 March 2007, Peter Van Lone wrote:
> 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

I think that's about it, although I can't vouch for just how much
is Microsoft's input to this and how much comes from other sources.
Wikipedia had a pretty good write up last I checked.

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John Andersen