[Samba] terminology: what is cifs and smb?

steve steve at steve-ss.com
Sun May 25 08:37:00 MDT 2014


Hi
I have to explain what cifs and smb are. And smb2 and maybe smb3. I can
wikipedia most of it but a lot of it doesn't agree. Specifically, what
am I using when I do mount.cifs?

This says that cifs is no longer:
http://blog.fosketts.net/2012/02/16/cifs-smb/

If anyone has 5 mins b4 2moro mornin CEST
Cheers,
Steve




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