svn commit: samba-web r1044 - in trunk: .

sfrench at samba.org sfrench at samba.org
Tue Sep 26 18:19:39 GMT 2006


Author: sfrench
Date: 2006-09-26 18:19:39 +0000 (Tue, 26 Sep 2006)
New Revision: 1044

WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba-web&rev=1044

Log:
update CIFS POSIX Extensions web page

Modified:
   trunk/CIFS_POSIX_extensions.html


Changeset:
Modified: trunk/CIFS_POSIX_extensions.html
===================================================================
--- trunk/CIFS_POSIX_extensions.html	2006-09-26 16:05:24 UTC (rev 1043)
+++ trunk/CIFS_POSIX_extensions.html	2006-09-26 18:19:39 UTC (rev 1044)
@@ -20,23 +20,25 @@
       <H1>CIFS VFS -&nbsp;</H1>
       </CENTER>
       <CENTER>
-      <H1>Protocol extensions to the Common Internet File System for better POSIX file i/o semantics
+      <H1>Protocol extensions to the Common Internet File System for better POSIX file I/O semantics
   &nbsp;</H1>
       </CENTER>
       </TD>
     </TR>
     <TR>
       <TD vAlign=top width="20%" bgColor=#eeeeee><!-- Menu (Left Column) --><!-- Menu -->
-      <CENTER><IMG alt="http://us1.samba.org/samba/images/penguin.gif" src="samba/images/penguin.gif"></CENTER>
+      <CENTER><IMG alt="http://us1.samba.org/samba/images/cifs-rail.jpg" src="samba/images/cifs-rail.jpg"></CENTER>
+	<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIFS">What is the CIFS Protocol?<A>
       <A 
       href="mailto:sfrench at smfltc@us.ibm.com">Questions to developers</A>&nbsp;
       <UL>
-        <LI><A href="https://bugzilla.samba.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=CifsVFS&content=">Search for open bugs in bugzilla </A>
-        <LI>Older Specifications
+        <LI><A href="ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/cifs/"> Older Specifications</A>
+	<LI><A href="http://ubiqx.org/cifs/References.html">Miscellaneous references to SMB/CIFS and loosely related protocols</A>
 	<LI>Presentations
         <LI><A href="http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/CIFS/CIFS-TR-1p00_FINAL.pdf">SNIA 
         CIFS Specification</A>&nbsp;
-        href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/presentations/samba/ut_cifs.pdf">r</A>
+	<LI><A href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-crhertel-smb-url-11.txt">SMB URL Specification</A>&nbsp;
+	<LI><A href="http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/">Implementing CIFS (Online Book)</A>&nbsp;
       </UL>
       </TD>
       <TD vAlign=top bgColor=#ffffff><!-- Main Contents -->
@@ -44,11 +46,26 @@
       operating systems to better interoperate with CIFS servers 
       and storage appliances by extending the SNIA CIFS Specification version
       1.0.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Popular servers such as Samba, Windows
-      2000, Windows XP and many others support CIFS by default.&nbsp;&nbsp; These
+      2000, Windows XP and many others support CIFS by default.&nbsp; These
       extensions are already implemented in multiple clients and servers.
       <BR>
       &nbsp;
       </TD>
+	<P>30 Second History of the SMB/CIFS Protocol
+	<UL>
+	<LI>1984 Initial SMB Specification Published by IBM based on the work of Dr. Bary Feigenbaum and team
+	<LI>1985-1992 SMB Protocol extended by IBM, 3Com, Intel and Microsoft, and becomes the default filesystem protocol for DOS, OS/2 and Windows operating systems among others.
+	<LI>1992 X/Open publishes an updated version of the SMB standard: Protocols for X/Open PC Interworking: SMB Version 2 (CAE 209)
+	<LI>1994-1995 IBM Extends SMB to include support for DCE/Kerberos
+	<LI>1996 With the slow speed of HTTP for certain workloads, two key network filesystem protocols begin to become more "internet friendly." Sun announces WebNFS and Microsoft extends and renames SMB (announcing CIFS - "The Common Internet File System Protocol."  More formal documentation is developed describing the complex SMB/CIFS protocol in detail.
+	<LI>1996-2006 Annual CIFS Deveper Conferences are held to improve on interoperability.
+	<LI>1999-2001 SCO and HP add/document optional Unix Extensions to CIFS Protocol, Thursby adds/documents optional Macintosh extensions.
+	<LI>2002 After multiyear effort involving many companies including Microsoft, IBM and NetApp, The Storage Network Industry Association releases the SNIA CIFS Technical Reference (which also includes Unix and Mac protocol extensions for CIFS)
+	<LI>2003 NFSv4 (RFC 3530) released borrowing many ideas from CIFS
+	<LI>2004 Work begins on an improved set of extensions to the CIFS Protocol for better support of POSIX clients.
+	<LI>2006 Samba client and server and Linux client implement CIFS POSIX Extensions
+	</UL>
+	
     </TR>
     <TR>
       <TD vAlign=top></TD>



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