On Monday 12 March 2007, Peter Van Lone wrote:
On 3/12/07, John Andersen
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. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen